And then there's always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.

In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.

We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news.

Hi,' he says.
'Hi,' she says back, and then to her great surprise, she begins to cry.
'You know,' Nick says as he hands her a tissue from the bedside table,' for all this talk about how you don't cry, you sure are sprouting a lot of water.

Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.

You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry.