Jayson Blair

I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.