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

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.

You don't really want an army of people making individual decisions. And I don't think I completely understood that until people gave me examples of what happens when your army takes over your government and it's like, "Oh, yeah, I guess you can't really have people make individual moral decisions."

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

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

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

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