I'm good at marketing myself through the columns. But compared to other people I know, as far as networking and pushing yourself out there, I'm not very good at that.

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.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

I've just been to the Taj Mahal which I'd never been to and I'm not a very romantic kind of guy but it is the most romantic thing I've ever seen.

Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.

But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

When it all comes down to it, it’s just me and her against the world. Always has been.

Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

The less government we have the better.

It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition.

As a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.