Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people.

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion-I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

My dad, I still think, had the most beautiful, simple checklist for what you should do in life: Do something you really love that you would do it anyway. Do it in the most adventurous place you can do it. And make sure that it helps other people. And if you feel there's a genuine need for it, and that through that need you can help other people, you're home.

The dream is not the destination but the journey.

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.