I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.

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.

Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.

From the day I was conceived in my mother's womb, God predestined what I become.

At CBS, I’m in your house. I’m mindful of that. When I do standup, you’re in my home and I can say what I want to.

As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.

How about this, have you ever farted so hard you shivered?

Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.

I'm that person who owns all of the seasons on DVDs, including the Lifetime intimate portraits showcasing The Golden Girls. I am a massive fan. I think I'm Dorothy. She's my favorite.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.