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.

The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying.

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.

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

Early on, even in college, I figured out that it was just more interesting to me to create content than to write about other people. So that makes it more marketable.

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.