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The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.

When I was reporting crime... I never had the sense of clockwork conspiracies or some kind of imposing order of evil. What I sensed was things just sort of falling apart.

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.

Let me tell you what changed my mind: it was when Donald Trump picked Mike Pence to be his running mate. I was convinced that Donald Trump knew exactly what he was doing, and he knew that was rounded out the ticket in many ways.

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.

I'm just an old storyteller, and I always wanted to know, what the hell were these candidates really like?

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.