To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder; it is a howling reproach.

I have the necessary lack of tact.

It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

Look, fundamentally there are two sets of questions that apply in the war against terrorism. The one set of questions deals with the, "Where is it going to happen? What's going to happen? When is it going to happen?" The other set of questions deals with, "What is it that our enemy, the terrorists, are trying to achieve?" What are they trying to induce us to do?