I eat right. I exercise. I run 5 miles a day on the treadmill.

My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction.

I tend to overwrite; I need a good editor.

My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.

You see a lot over 30 years and you try to be professional and responsible. A lot of the interviews you do can be very haunting.

When I finished grad school, I sort of fell into journalism. Someone mentioned that there was an entry level job at the Reuters News Agency. I applied, and, to my amazement, I got the job.

Americans are clearly more afraid than at any time since 9/11. In Los Angeles, 650 schoolchildren didn't go to - 650,000 schoolchildren didn't go to school because of an e-mail threat, this two weeks after an attack killed 14 people in San Bernardino.