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

I'm good at marketing myself through the columns. But compared to other people I know, as far as networking and pushing yourself out there, I'm not very good at that.

I'm not that clued into what people are that touchy about and how many of them there are and how niche these niches are.

I don't like to be in the forest. It's a weird thing. I've learned to have a general appreciation for nature, which has taken a while. But the forest, I still don't really love.

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.

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've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.