“Staring down hard truth takes guts.”

“Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.”

“It takes guts to go after your dreams, and well, no guts, no story.”

“Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.”

“To understand the truth of everything,it took guts more than simply thinking.”

“I'm not saying it's simple to find and tell the truth. It takes a great deal of hard work, intellectual honesty, open-mindedness, and a willingness to keep listening to people even when your gut is telling you they're full of it. Then it involves drilling through the layers of one's cultural assumptions and prejudgments, all the way down to the mushy middle of all of us, where I believe there's a basic humanity that tells us what's right and what's wrong. If we as writers apply that code - without the anchors of agenda or ideology - we can lift our prose to something that can be called the truth. It's the very best of what journalism can and should be.”