Quotes from Anthony Shadid

NO ROADS, NOT a single one, lead to the place where we had gotten ourselves.

I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for.

The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate what they support for a decade of sanctions in Iraq had done to Iraq and the bitterness that it created and that it wiped out the middle class.

I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.