You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school.

A woman I loved [Andi Parhamovich] was killed in Baghdad in January 2007 – al-Qaeda in Iraq took credit for it … The memorial service with me crying over an empty coffin.

General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of Rolling Stone.

I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.

I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

Look, I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.

If the thumbnail version of the Iraq war was that Bush lied about WMD, the thumbnail version of Obama's war in Afghanistan is that the generals pushed him into a war he didn't want to fight.

The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.

No power is born of hate.All power and authority is born of love.Oh, you, who want any power somewhere!Ask yourselves who and what you love?

We all live but a hundred years. When I am with you, I live it in a matter of days.

Every man must have a peaceful place to contemplate. If you do not have such a place, you must find one!

It's not about how fast you go. It's not about how far you go. It's a process.

For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning.

Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.

Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much.