Ebola is a nasty disease to get. It's scary. But as a weapon, it is probably not likely. Ebola is a difficult malady to weaponize and deliver efficiently.

- Tom Clancy

Success will ruin your life.

- Tom Clancy

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

- Tom Clancy

I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky.

- Tom Clancy

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

- Tom Clancy

America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.

- Tom Clancy

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

- Tom Clancy

Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.

- Tom Clancy

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

- Tom Clancy

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

- Tom Clancy

Wars are begun by frightened men.

- Tom Clancy

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.

- Tom Clancy

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

- Tom Clancy

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

- Tom Clancy

Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.

- Tom Clancy

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

- Tom Clancy

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

- Tom Clancy

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

- Tom Clancy

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

- Tom Clancy

The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

- Tom Clancy