Reporting in general makes me pretty nervous. But I realized: all the amazing work experiences of my life were thanks to reporting. So that forces you to go do it.

What I wound up doing, which I think is really journalistically dubious, is changing the order of some of the things I did, so that the things I ended up struggling with the most wind up being two-thirds of the way in.

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

I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.

There have been people who represent something very symbolic and I've been freaked out interviewing them.

The people who get places in life just say yes to everything.

I can't imagine deer hunting. I used to think I couldn't imagine deer hunting because killing a deer seemed so awful. But now I think about just sitting in a tree and doing nothing all day and probably not even seeing a deer. Not moving and sitting in a tree? That seems rough.