A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating.

If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.

We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.

The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.

You're breaking out of character, again.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.