I'm incredibly focused. I think it's a blessing and a curse. I'm so driven that nothing else can stand in my way. For many years, I didn't have a personal life.

There are ways to minimize the risk if you are a woman working in the Middle East: You can dress modestly, wear the hijab, cover your head, always travel with a man.

People think photography is about photographing. To me, it’s about relationships.

I hope that my work helps people - that's the thing that drives me and keeps me going.

I just pray. And I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion, when I was about 6 or 7.

In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get the access that I get.

The goal for me is to pull in the reader and to have them ask questions.

Mortars and artillery don't discriminate against gender.

If women are all of a sudden complaining all the time about getting sent to Pakistan, then if I were an editor, I probably wouldn't send a woman.

I was assigned a Taliban "minder" who followed me everywhere. But he couldn't follow me into homes where there were women, so I took photos inside people's homes.

I've always been interested in the rest of the world. My family is very eccentric; my parents have always been very supportive of travel and doing whatever I thought I needed to do.

from under the ground, from under the waters, they clutch at us, they clutch at us, we won’t let go.

Being on the road is no excuse for having a poor diet. I don't like fast food, but if I have to, I'll order three plain grilled chicken sandwiches and throw out the buns.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again

A champion is someone who sweats to exhaustion, even when no one else is watching

Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.

The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.

I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen

I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign.

The more precisely I can drive, the more I enjoy myself.