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.

Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction.

I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.

I can't explain why I don't read comments. Maybe because I worked at Time for so long and they don't have them, so I keep forgetting that they're there.

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.

When Time got rid of my column, I thought it was all over. It was really sad. And then, I just started pushing it to lots of places. And I thought someone would run my column, I thought it was popular, and no one wanted it.

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