I can't imagine what someone would write that would infuriate me. Maybe if my loved one had died of some disease and someone was insensitive, that would piss me off.

I love sushi, but I'm not going to write a column about it.

When wine drinkers tell me they taste notes of cherries, tobacco and rose petals, usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass.

Reporting in general makes me pretty nervous. But I realized: all the amazing work experiences of my life were thanks to reporting. So that forces you to go do it.

Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction.

I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.

I always thought that being at Time and tweaking your bosses and exploiting your expense account was just fun. Just joyous.

I'm not that clued into what people are that touchy about and how many of them there are and how niche these niches are.

People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life.

I have a really high bar for being angry. Like, it doesn't even happen every year.

I've gotten thicker skin mostly from being older. You just stop caring quite as much about everything.

Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.

Let your resolution and confession be, 'I will change these things because I want to succeed, and I want to succeed because it will bring me the happiness I seek and desire.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

What we really need is to realize how little we really need.

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

(God) wants America to succeed. And he wants America to lead.

Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.

No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.

People have to go through things in order to become the person they are today, and that's that.

I'm the national champion of Jamaica now, I go into the Olympics like this.