When a big event happens, people turn on to CNN, not only because they know there will be people there covering an event on the ground, but because they know we’re going to cover it in a way that’s non-partisan, that’s not left or right.
Our skin is very thin. It doesn’t take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.
I’ve always giggled like a 13-year-old girl at a Justin Bieber meet and greet. There’s nothing I can do about it but I’ve never not been able to stop.
The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.
Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.
The whole celebrity culture thing – I’m fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.
I’ve been addicted to TV since I emerged from the womb.
Politics was his passion, but he wasn’t suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.
That’s the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.
New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill.
The map of the world is always changing; sometimes it happens overnight. All it takes is the blink of an eye, the squeeze of a trigger, a sudden gust of wind. Wake up and your life is perched on a precipice; fall asleep, it swallows you whole.
If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they’re more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.
Do you get the anger that is out here?
The thing I love about reporting is being able to blend in with any group, whether that’s neo-Nazis or pedophiles.
If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.
I suppose if you’ve never bitten your nails, there isn’t any way to explain the habit. It’s not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction – pride in a job well done.
I think being gay is a blessing, and it’s something I am thankful for every single day.
I’m not trying to be something that I’m not. I’m just trying to be myself and talk about what I know, and admit what I don’t know.
Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.
I went to a high school reunion a couple years ago and realized that the kids who were the most unusual in high school are the ones who are the most interesting now and the ones who were popular are dull and boring.