The fun thing about journalism is if you go do a story about something, you can now ask three intelligent questions about it. Or say three intelligent things. And that gets people talking.

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.

During our time together in this place Holly didn’t outright avoid me or treat me rudely. But she wasn’t—how do women like to put it? She wasn’t emotionally available to me.

Sore muscles are nothing compared to the pain of regret.

I'm a teenager trapped in an old body.

Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer.

I used to Google my name to see what came up - it hurt.

No human being can destroy the structure of a marriage except the two who made it. It is the one human edifice that is impregnable except from within.

But why allow someone to make a bad choice when a little information might engender a better one? It's hard to wake up and see the sun if the blinds are pulled.

If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music.

There are 2 rules in extreme snowriding: First, always follow your heart; second, never cry when it hurts.

Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.