I think when you start to get afraid, it's time to leave.

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.

There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.

I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.