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

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.

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

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

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

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.