It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize.

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.

People would rather believe than know.

When the officer approached the window, he said ‘Papers’ and before he could finish, I shouted, ‘Scissors! I win, ’ and drove off.

I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself.

There's always some kind of hidden logic.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through

I am no big shot. I am not anybody's boss. I want to be everybody's servant.

There is a double rhythm in all human beings. We are binary beings - two arms, two legs, two eyes, two ears. Two legs for walking. And the heartbeat thumping in our chest mirrors that.

The first rule of baseball is to get a good ball to hit.

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

Everyday, say a hundred things you love about yourself.