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.

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

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

The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need.

I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.