Even in a war, someone has to take care of daily life. Someone has to feed and clothe the children.

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.

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.

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.

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

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