I don't pretend to be objective. There is no such thing as being an objective journalist.

For much of my life as a journalist, I've viewed myself as being embedded with civilians and with those people who live on the other side of the barrel of a gun.

I believe that one of the most important institutions in a democratic society is a free press.

My fear, as an American, is that our own actions are going to contribute to an inspiration for terrorists to want to harm us or kill us.

If I were to read about me purely on Twitter, I wouldn’t know what to make of me.

You can do as much diligence as possible before you go somewhere to try to protect yourself and the people around you.

Everywhere you go, people have recorded or captured events in real time on their mobile phones. It becomes one of the first questions you ask when you go in to investigate something.

Write every day. Even if it's only a letter.

To believe something and not live is like making fun of your abilities. You cannot be really trusted if you can dream and doubt its possibility.

Words like eyeglasses blur everything that they do not make clear.

That's the van? It looks like a rotting banana." This was undeniable - Eric had painted the van a neon shade of yellow, and it was blotched with dings and rust like splotches of decay.

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.

In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.

Many gloat over their own troubles.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.

I'm definitely a risk-taker with my music.