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

What I wound up doing, which I think is really journalistically dubious, is changing the order of some of the things I did, so that the things I ended up struggling with the most wind up being two-thirds of the way in.

I try to see what that person is thinking or feeling about that particular day. I just get more of a sense of what that person's like and hopefully it's more interesting than a normal conversation.

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.

There have been people who represent something very symbolic and I've been freaked out interviewing them.