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.

I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.

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

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

Great questions make great reporting.

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.

People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.