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

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

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.

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

Being in New York and having worked at Time Out New York and then being at Time, living in New York for a long time has helped because I know everybody. And they're the people who call me and give me jobs. So that kind of real networking, which is just living in a place and having jobs where people around you are extremely successful, has helped me tremendously.

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.

I've gotten thicker skin mostly from being older. You just stop caring quite as much about everything.