I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.

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

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

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.

I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.

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.

When I lose my column again, I'm sure I'll get hungry again. Maybe it's having a kid, but it's probably just getting to do what I always wanted to do - I'm really not that hungry.