I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.

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.

Whatsoever you set your hands on doing, do it in such a way that your work will always stand out.

When dragons attack, the only thing you should seek to stand behind is your own sword.

Luce blushed. "Then what kind of angel are you?""I'm sort of in between gigs right now, " Daniel said.

Nothing is really 'safe'.

There will be time to diet when people stopped killing one another.

There are lots of things that I'd like to be, and nice just doesn't seem good enough.

The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.

From an egotistical point of view, I'm always interested in roles that push me as a person. I'm interested in humans as animals and as products of society.