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

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.

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

Sometimes God pulls us away from normal just long enough to begin something great in us.

The most painful thing is losing Someone who was always beside you...!

I feel I rise to the occasion when the pressure's on my shoulders.

I'm not a billionaire, what a tragedy.

Great pain, when it is honored from the heart, opens into great understanding.

Discipline is positive. Discipline is training. Teaching and discipline are inseparable.

Late children are early orphans.

And I'm not a micromanagement guy. I prefer to spend my time doing other stuff than that.

Until the day we die our brain remains capable of change, according to the challenges that we set for it.

War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.