There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.

The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the Serbs.

Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill.

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.