People would ask if I wanted to host things and I was like, "No, I'm a writer, I don't host things." Just thinking I wouldn't be good at it - which is true - but also just wanting to hold on to some part of my identity.

I have a really high bar for being angry. Like, it doesn't even happen every year.

People would ask if I wanted to host things and I was like, "No, I'm a writer, I don't host things." Just thinking I wouldn't be good at it - which is true - but also just wanting to hold on to some part of my identity.

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'm not that clued into what people are that touchy about and how many of them there are and how niche these niches are.

I have some idea that if I pick on [boy band] One Direction, I'll get a ton of hate mail, because I know that when you're 15, you love a band like you will kill people. But I don't quite realize that that's true about people - adults - who read The Hunger Games.

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