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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.

Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for.

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.

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

I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.

In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its unique ability to provide a truly adversarial check on those in power.

There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

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.