There have been people who represent something very symbolic and I've been freaked out interviewing them.

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.

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.

MEMO:M- MakeE- EveryM- MinuteO- OutstandingLet Every Second Count In Your Life!

I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.

Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.

I made two mistakes at the beginning of the season. But I saw Manuel Almunia making mistakes as well, so sometimes you don't know what the thoughts of the coach are.'

Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught.

If it feels right in your gut, this is who you are, this is what you do, this is what you feel, then don't hide that. You just stick to it and the world will catch up.

For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.