With a Q&A, you need obviously to keep it snappy.

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.

Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.

If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.

It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

Right now I really enjoy writing songs.

I didn't know I was really a writer until I read it in the New York Times. And then I thought, "Oh my god, maybe I can really do this". That was a review of "Margaret."

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

A president cant go to every memorial service.

My dreams are my work. I design out of the things that I love.

Over time, the more we bring China into the world, the more the world will bring freedom to China.