When wine drinkers tell me they taste notes of cherries, tobacco and rose petals, usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass.

I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.

People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life.

You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book.

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

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.

Basically, I wake up, take care of my son for a little while, and then like, "I am gonna write!" And then I wind up.