As journalism dies, I kind of feel like I want some skills besides writing. I'd like to be able to write movies or host TV shows or whatever. Things that I might actually not inherently like quite as much, but are interesting and fun things to do. A good backup plan.

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've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.

You're not going to change anyone's mind. Especially online.

I can't imagine what someone would write that would infuriate me. Maybe if my loved one had died of some disease and someone was insensitive, that would piss me off.

I don't read "letters" sections of magazines, but I'll read anyone's blog post about me.

I can't explain why I don't read comments. Maybe because I worked at Time for so long and they don't have them, so I keep forgetting that they're there.