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

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

I was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, and you think, ah, I'm going to be okay.

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.

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

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

As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.