If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.

It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.

The grey-rain curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.

Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.

Avoid tweeting any photos of your private parts.

The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.

Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead. I found myself looking at my work as if I were at my own funeral.

The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.