You don't get anywhere without saying yes.

The fun thing about journalism is if you go do a story about something, you can now ask three intelligent questions about it. Or say three intelligent things. And that gets people talking.

I never thought to look at the New York Times one, even though I knew people were pissed off. I've seen YouTube videos from people who are pissed off at me about that and that takes a lot of effort to go find.

It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize.

When Time got rid of my column, I thought it was all over. It was really sad. And then, I just started pushing it to lots of places. And I thought someone would run my column, I thought it was popular, and no one wanted it.

I always thought that being at Time and tweaking your bosses and exploiting your expense account was just fun. Just joyous.

Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction.