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" I'm kind of odd; I'm a technophobe who isn't a technophobe. I'm afraid of new things, but eventually I love them. That happened with Twitter. "

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" I love the magic of stories and the power of stories. "

" In Brazil, the history of the interaction between blancos and indios - whites and Indians - often reads like an extended epitaph. Tribes were wiped out by disease and massacres; languages and songs were obliterated. "

" I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.' "

" My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata. "

" If I can find the right idea, I can get out of the way and do a good story. "

" Each person, as they live through history, can't see it all. "

" I've done a lot of stories over the years, and sometimes there are larks, and they're fun, and you kind of move on. "

" The amazing thing about the sea is that it is perhaps the last truly unexplored frontier; most oceanographers estimate that only about ninety-five per cent of the sea has been studied. Meanwhile, the oceans are believed to contain more animals than exist on land, a majority of which have never been discovered. "

" Memory is a code to who we are, a collection of not just dates and facts but also of epic emotional struggles, epiphanies, transformations. "

" The outlaw, in the American imagination, is a subject of romance - a 'good' bad man, he is typically a master of escape, a crack shot, a ladies' man. "

" There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living through history has. "

" I often feel that with a crime story, the moral standards have to be higher. You're deal with real victims and with real consequences. "

" I don't hunt, I don't camp, and I get lost on my subway to work here in Times Square! "

" You want the story to be about something, have some deeper meaning, but there is also an emotional, almost instinctual, element, which is, does this story seize some part of you and compel you to get to the bottom of it? "

" One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels. "

" Because many squid have brain nerve fibres that are hundreds of times thicker than those of humans, neuroscientists have long used them for research. These nerve fibres have led to so many breakthroughs in the study of neurons that many scientists joke that the squid should receive a Nobel Prize. "

" There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter. "

" I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide them. "

" I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago. "

" Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a drawer somewhere. "

" When I work on stories, I tend to be pretty obsessive. "

" Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite. "

" I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't know how to be one - other than just do it. I didn't know what form it would take. "

" Baseball, of course, has long been played under the burden of metaphor. More so than basketball or football, it is supposed to represent something larger than itself. "

" I tried a few grad school programs because I didn't know how to make it... Eventually, I was desperate for a job, and there was a new newspaper opening up in Washington, D.C., called 'The Hill.' Even though my interest in politics wasn't huge, they gave me a job as a copy editor. "

" Base stealers are often considered their own breed: reckless, egocentric, even a touch mad. "

" There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor. "

" Most of Gingrich's moderate positions are rooted in a realpolitik that transcends ideology. "

" I had always been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan. "

Sherlock Holmes

" I was not very good at newspaper reporting. I'm just not quick enough, and I always tend to tell things as stories. "