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

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

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.

There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.

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

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