I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.

With a Q&A, you need obviously to keep it snappy.

I try to see what that person is thinking or feeling about that particular day. I just get more of a sense of what that person's like and hopefully it's more interesting than a normal conversation.

You don't really want an army of people making individual decisions. And I don't think I completely understood that until people gave me examples of what happens when your army takes over your government and it's like, "Oh, yeah, I guess you can't really have people make individual moral decisions."

When I get real big volumes of hate mail, it's usually because I wrote something poorly. But it's also because some group told people to e-mail me and those people didn't read the article, they read the post about what I wrote about. And they all e-mail me. And they all come around at the same time.

If New Vegas foretells something about America's future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost.

I love sushi, but I'm not going to write a column about it.