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.

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

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

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 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.

Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.

I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.

You know, I thought about that a lot these last couple of years," She says in a choked voice. "About who was there for you. Who held your hand while you grieved for all that you'd lost?

I'm all for the Fairness Doctrine, whatever that is.

The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.

We need to reexamine and reassess the purpose of the corporation, and go back to the idea that senior leadership has responsibilities not just to shareholders but also to customers and employees.

We must always walk in the presence of the Lord, in the light of the Lord, always trying to live in an irreprehensible way.

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

Oh yeah, I'm an Essex boy and proud of it.

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.