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

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.

You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book.

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

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