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

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

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

I think I realized that Dave Barry was funnier than I'll ever be, and he made no attempt to make any actual points. He had a general libertarian point of view, but in general, he just liked to make jokes.

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.

I don't read "letters" sections of magazines, but I'll read anyone's blog post about me.

When I get real big volumes of hate mail, it's usually because I wrote something poorly. But it's also because some group told people to e-mail me and those people didn't read the article, they read the post about what I wrote about. And they all e-mail me. And they all come around at the same time.