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'm good at marketing myself through the columns. But compared to other people I know, as far as networking and pushing yourself out there, I'm not very good at that.

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.

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

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.

You don't get anywhere without saying yes.

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