I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.

My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone.

I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.