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I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.

I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.

One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my own time was 'Hunt for Red October' by Tom Clancy.

I thought there would be more time in my trailer to write during 'Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.,' but I seem to be always flying in a harness and conquering supervillains instead.

If Tom Clancy didn't write any Op-Centers, he would be $60 million less rich.

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.

Every viewer who ever turned on 'Doctor Who' has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.