To me, that's the foundational fact of my identity is that I'm a journalist and so it's hard to imagine putting anything else first.

I think facts and truth are essential to journalism but you need to reckon with emotion. You have to deal with how people feel, otherwise you miss the story.

I've always been a sort of curious and restless person. I've always wrestled with ambition.

I think, I just always carry this kind of happy sense of being able to come into any situation and know that I don't exactly fit in, but I can make a place for myself.

To me we're living in this very profoundly non-idealogical time where the real divide is between people who have power and people who either don't have power or feel that they don't have power.

Ability to have that sort of feedback loop with your readers to me felt incredibly powerful.

My father was very much a child of the counterculture movement and was drawn to the idea of alleviating poverty in the developing world, helping farmers diversify their crops and stuff like that.

Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.

No one on any plane of existence is infallible or knows everything we need to know.

She is not with me this grief is not bigger then this relax that she is with her choice

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius fifty per cent bloody fool.

Super-stardom doesn't scare or excite me. It's just another ingredient added to my world.

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.

If you know two languages, the level of your intelligence is multiplied a hundredfold in other people's eyes.

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.

Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.