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

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.

Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.

I always try to describe the situation just as it is. I try to find sentences that I believe tell the story best. Even my articles are more literary than ordinary news stories.

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

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.