Hate is contagious. A few seconds after Donald Trump has told me something hateful, somebody else repeats it. He has legitimized what people only dare say in their kitchens and bedrooms.

You have to show reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

I didn't want to be an immigrant. I was forced to be an immigrant. Alexis de Tocqueville, the French writer, said that the powerful and the happy never go into exile. He was right.

Elie Wiesel says that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victim. And I think you can apply that to journalism.

What I find most interesting about the U.S. is this idea of equality.

Happiness for me is the people whom you love, love you back.

My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism because I wanted to be in the places where history was being made.

I could hardly sleep and even when I did drop off, I awoke to a grim thought: I’m disgusting. I can’t play any more. I went to bed with Dudek and all his Liverpool team-mates.

Storytelling is a form of self-disclosure.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful.

Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words.

I'm happy that I was able to experience a normal life besides show business, because it gives you something to draw from.

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer.

I have some weak poems in that new collection, which is why I'm not ready to send the collection out yet.

For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading.