Where would you like to live? In a state of conflict or a conflicted state?

I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.

Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.