Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
It's not possible to put into words the sense of loss and grief that comes to a family that loses one of their children.
You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.
Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.
There are problems in the world today.
Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission.
Donald Trump has no credibility to criticize me or my record or anything that I have done. If he had spent a minute in the deserts of Afghanistan or in the deserts of Iraq, I might listen to what he has to say.
A lot of people mistake the persona that I create in poetry and fiction with me. A lot of people claim to know me who don't really know me. They know the work, or they know the persona in the work, and they confuse that with me, the writer. They don't realize that the persona is also a creation and a fabrication, a composite of my friends and myself all pasted together.
Man is known to be a selfish, as well as a social being.
The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life
You want everything to go right. You've just got to let yourself be free and have good energy.