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I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.

I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don't like, and still feel comfortable about it.

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.