It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize.

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

I have a really high bar for being angry. Like, it doesn't even happen every year.

Early on, even in college, I figured out that it was just more interesting to me to create content than to write about other people. So that makes it more marketable.

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.

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.

I always thought that being at Time and tweaking your bosses and exploiting your expense account was just fun. Just joyous.