When younger reporters go into war zones and I talk to them, sometimes they'll ask, 'What do you suggest? What should I know?' The first thing that I say is, 'Danger doesn't always feel like danger. You're going into a situation that is unlike anything you've experienced before. If you've seen movies, they edit out all the boring parts that happen... so you're going to have a very poor sense of what the actual rhythms of a day in Baghdad will be. You'll be surprised at how quickly things go bad, how quickly the danger arrives, and how quickly it passes. These things are extremely difficult to train. They're the kind of thing that you learn by accidentally surviving long enough.'