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

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.

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.

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

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.

Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction.

I never thought to look at the New York Times one, even though I knew people were pissed off. I've seen YouTube videos from people who are pissed off at me about that and that takes a lot of effort to go find.