"To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!"

"The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period."

"When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die."

"Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?"

"The want of money is the root of all evil."

"I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.'"

"I don't talk about money."

"Money is our madness, our vast collective madness."