Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

I'm not the slowest writer that you know.

You are losing out because Mexican rapists are taking your job.

Mobile is great for us. I think, even though the size of the screen doesn't give everything The New Yorker has to offer, people are spending a lot of time reading - and reading seriously - on the phone.

Vladimir Putin wants practical things, like the end of economic sanctions, but he also wants far greater sway in Europe and in the overall ideological trends of the world.

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

I actually have great hopes for the future.