You really, really have to care about animals to want to kill one. You have to learn all this stuff about them and start thinking like 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.

God has great riches for you. If thy will seek Him.

Of all the girls that are so smart There's none like pretty Sally She is the darling of my heart And lives in our alley.

God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.

She wanted out of the decorating scheme.

The first film I can remember seeing on TV was 'The Brides of Dracula.' I was instantly hooked.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

It is unlikely that God's plan for the universe includes making you rich.

I went out with Robbie Williams and Liam Gallagher. I was accused of going out with many different people but that wasn't my fault.

It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child.

Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.