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A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

You can't be a reporter using Google. It can be a tool. But you have to get out of the house.

I've always been really interested in secrets - how people find ways of doing things without telling anyone else in order to keep themselves feeling safe in the world.

There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.

I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.

You'll find a lot of rich detail in people's personal histories - diaries and journals and things of the era.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.