I think that feeling of reward comes from being able to find sometimes an unexpected reflection or insight that seems to transcend the description it….

The more I've traveled to war zones, the more I'm convinced that the impact and the effects are way beyond anything we can even begin to imagine..

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupati….

If you're young and inexperienced you might accept what people tell you, that everything's going to be fine, it's okay. It's usually other young peop….

Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time..

Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the atrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s native Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted that “the coun….

I think it's deeply important for us to know, especially when we come from the outside, how "ordinary people" think and feel and what their expectati….

You need to be hyper-aware because it's your survival at stake..

How is it possible to live in world where people can rule millions of others? It's incredible! It's like we've gone back to the 12th century. That's ….

War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper..

I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991..

We live in an extraordinary time, in which one still has the ability to mold opinion. Also, it's up for grabs. Perceptions are up for grabs in a way ….

I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, bur….

Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up….

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white..

For me going to war offers me the ability to write about apparently very alien, sometimes hated or despised people, who've been objectified in a way ….

It is important to know how influential people think and perceive their countrymen, let's say, especially when you are talking about people in power.….

If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life..