I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.

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.

Measure your life by products and by the results you produce.

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

But dreams move on, if you wait too long.

The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

That's important, I think, for people who come here to realize that we are here for only a time and we have an obligation of service and we need to keep things in perspective.

The party don't stop, til the casket drop.

Can a wolfe be beautiful?

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.