I hate walking up to strangers.

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

What I wound up doing, which I think is really journalistically dubious, is changing the order of some of the things I did, so that the things I ended up struggling with the most wind up being two-thirds of the way in.

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

Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction.

Basically, I wake up, take care of my son for a little while, and then like, "I am gonna write!" And then I wind up.

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.