I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world.

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That's not a record to be proud of.

The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next.

Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.

The best way to win at a game of chance is to remove chance from the equation.

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.