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.

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

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.

As journalism dies, I kind of feel like I want some skills besides writing. I'd like to be able to write movies or host TV shows or whatever. Things that I might actually not inherently like quite as much, but are interesting and fun things to do. A good backup plan.

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

If New Vegas foretells something about America's future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost.

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."