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 don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.

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.

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 definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.

I'm not that clued into what people are that touchy about and how many of them there are and how niche these niches are.

When Time got rid of my column, I thought it was all over. It was really sad. And then, I just started pushing it to lots of places. And I thought someone would run my column, I thought it was popular, and no one wanted it.