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

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

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

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.

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.

I have lived a life that has been beautiful and painful at some moments. But I am convinced others can learn how to control a certain kind of rage that bubbles up in many Americans, particularly, but not limited to, women, blacks, and other minorities.