"My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world."

"Regardless of your support, you need to make work."

"My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive."

"I do think you can change the past and the present somehow. Even if something has already happened, it doesn't mean it's settled."

"Adventure is not outside man; it is within."

"I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them."

"And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive."

"The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous."