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.

I have a really high bar for being angry. Like, it doesn't even happen every year.

When wine drinkers tell me they taste notes of cherries, tobacco and rose petals, usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass.

I've gotten thicker skin mostly from being older. You just stop caring quite as much about everything.

I've learned over time that every editor has told me when you're getting that much hate, you don't talk about it. You just kind of don't give it oxygen and let it go away. It's almost - not always, but almost - always the best policy.

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

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