We're Living In Post-nuance Online Times.

No, People Back Home Don't Realize Why There Is This Kind Of Need For Heroes In America At The Moment. People In Britain Don't Really Understand What's Going On Here. They Don't Understand Why Camp X-ray Exists.

At First, I Did Stories On People Who Were Maybe Just Eccentric. Omar Was A Natural Progression From That.

As I Glanced At The Phraseology Of The Research Report, Dull And Unfathomable To Outsiders Like Me, I Thought That If You Have The Ambition To Become A Villain, The First Thing You Should Do Is Learn To Be Impenetrable. Don’t Act Like Blofeld—monocled And Ostentatious. We Journalists Love Writing About Eccentrics. We Hate Writing About Impenetrable, Boring People. It Makes Us Look Bad: The Duller The Interviewee, The Duller The Prose. If You Want To Get Away With Wielding True, Malevolent Power, Be Boring.

We Have To Understand How The Extremists Got The Way They Are. Without That Kind Of Understanding, We'd Never Really Get To Know Them. I Put In Nothing About Their Childhoods. But What I Have Put In Is Stuff About The Weird Symbiotic Relationship Between Us And Them.

Friends Are The Fruitcake Of Life - Some Nutty, Some Soaked In Alcohol, Some Sweet.