I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

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

I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads?