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.

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.

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.

When you do your works sincerely, you put wings to your works and then they will fly all over the world on their own!

Don't worry about it

PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.

I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

The definition of adventure depends upon how boring your life is.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Making fun of anyone's size, height, scarring, anything like that equals dumb.

Many of those engaged in a lemming-like march to the sea are proud of their individualism.

It's amazing what you don't see, though. Even when it's right in front of your eyes.

Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.