This made her remember why people take up walking: It is because they no longer have anywhere to go.

If you don't have a job, you don't have a fear of losing it. You fear having to get one.

I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.

I like storms. I would say I actively like stormy weather. I would not be afraid of them. I think that if I had not pursued journalism, I think storm-chasing would've been a really fun career.

[On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted.

I feel like a lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the interview. Then as soon as they actually sit down with that person, they basically ask the questions they think journalists are supposed to ask, and they start viewing themselves almost as a peer of the subject. Like they're going to become friends. That's why most celebrity journalism is so terrible.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.