I try to come to my reporting as a real, whole person, not an automaton.

There’s no such thing as being totally ‘found’…the fun, I think, is in the searching.

There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening.

What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me, too."

I tend to only be able to obsess about one thing at once, and become fully engaged in and only interested in that thing. But in the longer term, a lot of my stories also give birth to other stories.

I feel like I partly came to writing through being in college during the start of the Iraq war, and knowing that those issues mattered lot to me, and wanting to go see for myself.

Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the place that's most interesting to me as a reporter.

Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't fit into a Hollywood context it's not going to fly.

I wanted to think about ways to get an American readership concerned with what is happening in Mexico, but also to reframe it as a problem Americans share.

People are sometimes losing their homes before being convicted of a crime, or their cash or their cars.

I learned a lot, investigative methodology - wise, from litigators - watching their process.

MASSIMO: I will not let you give me up out of some misguided duty to God....You and I do not need to be alone to show devotion to God. Misery does not show true faith.

we must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be.

Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!

The main reason guys will never admit to having even the teeniest clue about what women really want is because if they did, they'd have to do something about it.

I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win

We believe that every relationship is unique unto itself, and thus even an attempt to think in types and forms is not going to express the essential truths of what happens when we love people.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

If you're constantly stepping outside of the character and judging them, you'll never really be able to fully engage because you'll always be slightly cynical.

Much of command is the ability to take command.