I try to see what that person is thinking or feeling about that particular day. I just get more of a sense of what that person's like and hopefully it's more interesting than a normal conversation.

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.

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

I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.

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

I try to see what that person is thinking or feeling about that particular day. I just get more of a sense of what that person's like and hopefully it's more interesting than a normal conversation.