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

As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.

I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.

We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.

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.

We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

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

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

As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

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.

Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet.

I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world, is discovery.

Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.

I think Romney's foreign policy is sensible.

I pray every night before I go to sleep and every morning when I wake up.

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

The important things are to train hard, and not give up hope.

we could hurt each other even when we weren't trying to, and that none of us was as perfect as we liked to pretend.

My goal is to end mass incarceration and change the laws to stop locking up low-level, nonviolent drug charges. Stop charging drug addicts as criminals.

Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.