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There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't true. What became important was to have a point of view.

I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.

Journalism is, indeed, a noble calling, and I have much I hope to accomplish in the next phase of my career.

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.

Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.