I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.

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.

There's nothing I like better than a good book discussion with someone who can hold up his end of the argument.

How to 'live' in a state of awe when life is mundane and ordinary?

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.

I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes.

When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of the last 50 years.

When you are hunger for God, He will fill you.

I'm not giving up acting, I'm definitely not going to stop

Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.