The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.
Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
No two wars are identical.
Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a double blessing.
I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.
Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.
I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I was HIV positive.
One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.