What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me, too."

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.

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.

Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.

Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions

If I can talk, I can sing.

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

The soul of India lives in its villages.

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world

Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left.