The fun thing about journalism is if you go do a story about something, you can now ask three intelligent questions about it. Or say three intelligent things. And that gets people talking.

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

If New Vegas foretells something about America's future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost.

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.

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.

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."

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