Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind.

The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.

Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.

Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.

Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.

When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.

At the end of the day, bin Laden's interest is not Washington and New York, it's the Middle East. He wants Saudi Arabia. He wants to get rid of the House of Saud.

The journey itself is my home.

I know about me. I am the moons sister, a tidal child stranded on land. The sea always in my ear, a surf of eternal discontent in my blood.

I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.

While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.

Actually, I'd already briefed him, early this morning. Since we were up at six. Since, at six, the nurse had been overcome with the overwhelming compulsion to take Fang's temperature right then.

I'm off to save the universe again. It's a tough job but someone has to do it, and I'm glad it's me.

Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.

Ah, my sister used to hit me harder.

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.