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.

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.

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

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

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

To greet the present is to part with the past and future.

I see entrepreneurship, like many other activities, as a type of mission. A mission by which we can provide better life chances and quality for both our current and future generations.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Dare to be competent. Competency is what makes everyone remain at peace when things are being handled by you. Watch yourself if everyone feels uncomfortable just because it’s you doing it.

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

I wanted to be a jockey.

And Johnny Manziel is only in a snickers commercial.

Jesus did not come to the Earth to start 285 squabbling denominations fighting over the Bible. How like the devil to divide Christians over the Bible.

I have to get out of bed every day to make something happen.