Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction.

I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.

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

When I get real big volumes of hate mail, it's usually because I wrote something poorly. But it's also because some group told people to e-mail me and those people didn't read the article, they read the post about what I wrote about. And they all e-mail me. And they all come around at the same time.

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.

You have to live among rich liberals to understand what they're saying. You'll never believe what they mean by 'middle class.' They mean themselves.

Being in New York and having worked at Time Out New York and then being at Time, living in New York for a long time has helped because I know everybody. And they're the people who call me and give me jobs. So that kind of real networking, which is just living in a place and having jobs where people around you are extremely successful, has helped me tremendously.