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 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.

The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.

You must pursue your dreams with all your might.

Things are just things. They can't bring back the dead. it just makes me feel better.

Cynicism - the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

The only people who attain power are those who crave for it.

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

America, like all nations, has to renounce war.

I always wanted to be a player, but I never had the talent to make the big leagues. So I did the next best thing: I bought a team.

I like when things are hard; I'm very competitive. If something seems difficult or impossible, it interests me.