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I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.

Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.

I'm an inexperienced reporter, and I'm still learning.

If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.

I'm a reporter - if I don't interview someone, I don't have much to say, and I definitely can't just sit down and knock out 800 words on any subject you give me.

Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of fewer errors, better facts, and better reporting.

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.