If I lived where I live right now, and my kids were in middle school, they would be the only white kids in the school. That is not a burden I wanted to place on them. My preference would have been a school that was totally diverse - half and half, or close. I wouldn't have hesitated at all if they would have been in the racial minority. But to be the only white kids: I don't think that would have been fair to them.

Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.

I have been called the antichrist, though, by Nazis.

International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.

Reporters are not merely recording devices that take down what people say and repeat it in print; we are expected to use our knowledge and experience both for triage - deciding what's important to cover and what isn't - and for contextualizing, analyzing and such.

Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.

Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.