Base stealers are often considered their own breed: reckless, egocentric, even a touch mad.

I often say that the best way to find a story is a one-inch brief in a local newspaper.

My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata.

When I work on stories, I tend to lose sight of everything else. I forget to pay bills or to shave. I don't change my clothes as often as I should.

In Brazil, the history of the interaction between blancos and indios - whites and Indians - often reads like an extended epitaph. Tribes were wiped out by disease and massacres; languages and songs were obliterated.

Don't get even, get mad.