The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other.

Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most.

One hates a person for the same reason one loves him

The issue of torture, connected to American soldiers, is not somewhere most people want to linger. We may not want to confront this issue so much in the U.S. because of how we want to think about our veterans. There's the sense that we want to think of our veterans as - if they're damaged, damaged by something glamorous, like a firefight.