I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the nut of it was: 'The season of pain is never over until the sky begins to cry.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.

Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.