Some people are more terrorist than others

I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.

I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.

I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it.

Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?