When Time got rid of my column, I thought it was all over. It was really sad. And then, I just started pushing it to lots of places. And I thought someone would run my column, I thought it was popular, and no one wanted it.

I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.

The people who get places in life just say yes to everything.

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

With a Q&A, you need obviously to keep it snappy.

You don't really want an army of people making individual decisions. And I don't think I completely understood that until people gave me examples of what happens when your army takes over your government and it's like, "Oh, yeah, I guess you can't really have people make individual moral decisions."

Reporting in general makes me pretty nervous. But I realized: all the amazing work experiences of my life were thanks to reporting. So that forces you to go do it.