Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect.

We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job.

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

Instagram - it's fun, but Facebook, no, just here and there. I use Instagram as a kick, like when somebody tells me to check out so-and-so's Instagram account to check out their French toast or a trip to Tanzania. But I don't have an account.

Being an editor it's a complicated job, but the last impression I'd want anybody to have is that it's onerous. It's a joy - a complicated joy, but a joy.

From a personal point of view, I'd like to interview my great-grandparents because I barely knew them, and I know next to nothing about my family beyond 100 years.

The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.