People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life.

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.

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.

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

No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.

U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation

Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.

Serenity is the end - and serenity is also the means - by which you live effectively.

I will consistently strive to learn by what I hear, see, and feel. I will write down the important things I learn, and I will do them.

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them.