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

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

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

I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.

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

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

The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.