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I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

I like the big questions.

The first step in good reporting is good snooping.

Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.

Good reporting is good reporting, regardless of the newness or oldness of the medium.

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

I've stopped war reporting. I realized that I'd answered all of my questions about war and about myself.

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting.

Something even minor I do is going to be reported because of things that have happened in the past. You have to be aware of that.