All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.

I always wanted to live alone for a month in a lakeside cabin. In my fantasy, I enter a state of perfect peace and grow my own kale and stuff, but in real life, I think I might be very bored after four days.

Peace is more than simply the absence of war; it is the absence of conditions that give rise to war.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.