No Two Wars Are Identical.

I Keep Telling Myself To Calm Down, To Take Less Of An Interest In Things And Not To Get So Excited, But I Still Care A Lot About Liberty, Freedom Of Speech And Expression, And Fairness In Journalism.

The Better The Information It Has, The Better Democracy Works. Silence And Secrecy Are Never Good For It.

My Job Is To Get To The Heart Of A Story, To Find Out What's Really Going On; To Get It Verified And, Then, To Get It Out To As Many People As Possible As Fast As.

It Wasn't Glamorous In My Day. In The Regions, Reporters Were Seen As Such Low Life That They Didn't Merit Their Name In The Radio Times. Now People Are Interested In Being Famous. I Never Gave It A Thought.

I Wrote In The Book Very Specifically What I Wanted To Write About, Period, And Left It At.