Bill Yarbrough

“I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again.”
― Clive Cussler, The Sea Hunters

“When people ask me whether I am a spy –‘are you now, or have you ever been?’ –I am tempted to reply with a hearty –‘Yes, and since the age of five.’ For a state of watchfulness must surely be the first requisite of a writer, as it is of a secret agent. A writer, like a spy, must prey upon his neighbours; like a spy he is dependent on those whom he deceives; like a spy he must somehow contrive to keep a distance from his own feelings and by doing so conjure up a package that will meet with the approval of his masters. Like a spy, he is not merely an outsider, but implicitly a subversive..”
― John le Carré

“It’s a fucked-up war when you are more worried about fighting your chain of command than the actual enemy.”
― Eric Blehm, The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein