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.

I always thought that being at Time and tweaking your bosses and exploiting your expense account was just fun. Just joyous.

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.

Early on, even in college, I figured out that it was just more interesting to me to create content than to write about other people. So that makes it more marketable.

You really, really have to care about animals to want to kill one. You have to learn all this stuff about them and start thinking like them.

I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.

Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction.