Do you know what a journalist is? Someone who hasn't written a novel yet.

Let go of Osama Bin Laden, let go of books where bombs go off and people die, let go of this war you have no scale for, that you don't understand.

In the words he’s free, on the page he can be anything. A hero.

I was covered in gore, dripping in slime, and in a very bad mood.

Everybody has a bogeyman.

I'm not a journalist any longer,” I told him. “I'm a chef!