It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind.

The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.

Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.

Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.

Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.

When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.

At the end of the day, bin Laden's interest is not Washington and New York, it's the Middle East. He wants Saudi Arabia. He wants to get rid of the House of Saud.

I have faced many moments of despair, thank God who relieved me from distress.

If you just go with the flow, no matter what weird things happen along the way, you always end up exactly where you belong.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.

I have no idea what's next, I simply don't have a clue.

marriages do not take root in the presence of witnesses but only in the consciousness of the persons involved.

The Warrior listens to the words of certain thinkers.

Exactly how intricate a sport is jogging? You were two years old. You ran after the cat. You pretty much had it mastered

I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.

Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity