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

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.

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.

Memories are the only moments when smiling & crying takes place at the same moment.

His hands are miracles. I can watch them for hours, transforming wood into something it never dreamed of being.

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural.

Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

In the sea of love, I melt like salt Faith, Doubt - they both dissolve. A star is opening in my heart . The worlds turn in it.