51 Quotes by Mitchell Zuckoff

Snow contains oxygen, which scatters light across the visible spectrum, making it appear white. Compacting squeezes out the oxygen, and the compacted ice crystals that remain absorb long light waves and reflect short waves. The shortest light waves are violet and blue. And so, the ice at the cold heart of Greenland is blue.

His debts approached three thousand dollars and, as Ponzi liked to say, his only assets were his hopes.

As students of military history, Rone and Oz could rattle off examples through the ages of attacks at first light.

More people will watch 'Spotlight' than will ever read the 'Globe' series that inspired it.

New Guinea was sort of a graveyard for planes.

Most travel disasters turn into something else: a story of survival, a story of bravery, of heroism, sometimes villainy. You just don't know when it starts where it's going to go because they are unexpected events.

It's not that you make a psychopath. They are - more likely, they come out that way, and they show their stripes over time.

As a journalist, you're always worried, 'Did I get the full story?'

There is an interesting parallel between the 'Argo' story and '13 Hours' in that, around the world, we have 285 or so diplomatic outposts and the expectation that the local government will come to our aid if we ever come under attack on the sovereign property of the United States in an embassy.