
General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of 'Rolling Stone.'

I've been in this business now for almost ten years. I've done a lot of stories. I have a pretty good track record.

I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.

Oh, don't let him pull that 'Pearl Harbor I'm going off to war' stuff on you.

It was either write or die for me.

When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.

I'm glad you're the one I get to leave the parties with.

I welcome all interviews with 'Rolling Stone' magazine, and I'm sure people will talk to me in the future.

My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq.

The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media.

You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school.

I grew up reading Holocaust literature at the beach, Gulag literature on winter holidays, Vietnam memoirs on spring break.