"I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter."

"People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman."

"In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy."

"War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks."

"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."

"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."

"My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness."

"It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up."