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.

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

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

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.

It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.