I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.

It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.

Her cheek brushed against his grey hoodie and the only thing she could think was, how can someone smell sweaty and amazing at the same time?

It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free - but only the truth can make a man free.

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

All the great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ignorant and as indelicate as generals, because they feel secure of impunity.

Prevent the things you have been doing and you are half-way home.

We'd be better off if we only had the words 'I love you.'

You need to recognize that the risk of moving toward your dreams is much lower than the slow, everyday punishment you inflict on yourself by suppressing your dream

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.

Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.