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

In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.

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

As a journalist, your job is to bear witness.

The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

Focus on your music and not technology.

And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement.

You know, the critics never change; I'm still getting the same notices I used to get as a child. They tell me I play very well for my age.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.