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.

I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.

I think I realized that Dave Barry was funnier than I'll ever be, and he made no attempt to make any actual points. He had a general libertarian point of view, but in general, he just liked to make jokes.

You're not going to change anyone's mind. Especially online.

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 want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.