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

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.

Later that night she picked the polish offwith her front teeth until the bed you sharedfor seven years seemed speckled with glitterand blood.

To gain that which is worth having it may be necessary to lose everything else.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I'd still land on my feet.

In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.

All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.

Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature.

When we spoke, Gene Wilder had just written a memoir called "Kiss Me Like A Stranger." The title was suggested by his late wife Gilda Radner three weeks before she died in 1989.

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than... is where it all comes from.