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When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other.

I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.

I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate.

I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

When I was 26 or 27, I gave up journalism. I came to England after my mom died, to let serendipity take its course. And I just found myself back in journalism again.

I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events.

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.