"I started one interview with Philip Roth for the Paris Review. We had this great long conversation. The next day he called and said he was tired of talking about himself, he just wanted to write. I said, I totally understand, no problem! That's when I realized I was more of a writer than an editor."

--Philip Gourevitch to the Economist on why he walked away from his plum editing job to work on a new book about Rwanda.