I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.

I am immensely contrite. And I'm sorry for the damage I've done.

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.