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."

You have to live among rich liberals to understand what they're saying. You'll never believe what they mean by 'middle class.' They mean themselves.

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 would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.

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

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

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