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

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

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

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.

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