Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction.

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.

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.

If New Vegas foretells something about America's future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost.

Do you want to retire early rich or retire late poor? Cosmic Ordering answers the first question!

I know that suffering is one place where He ministers to us the most. So to think that we've had our quota would be foolish. I am just longing for the day when all the pain stops.

Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?

If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.

There are lots more people in the House. I don't know exactly - I've never counted, but at least a couple hundred.

The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.

In Henry they had a forward so elusive that he was almost unplayable at his peak

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.