So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.
I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.
The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.
Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.
In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.
On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.
Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm.
I was collecting Barbies. I know. . . embarrassing. I sold them all on eBay, and traded them for vintage dishes. So I've collected two things.
There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.
We suffer one of two things. Either the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. You've got to choose discipline, versus regret, because discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons.
God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.