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.

If New Vegas foretells something about America's future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost.

True love is giving, not getting. Someone has said, "Love can always wait to give, but lust can never wait to get.

I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting.

in nonsense is strength

Even if you're popular, there are times when you just feel like you're not a part of things.

Few take up the burden of their own victory; most give up their dreams when these become impossible.

You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

I took the LSAT. My score was decent. I had a plan that if my score was really well, then I might of just went to Yale or Harvard... But it was just mediocre. I can get into law school.