With a Q&A, you need obviously to keep it snappy.

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.

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

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

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.

You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book.

I've learned over time that every editor has told me when you're getting that much hate, you don't talk about it. You just kind of don't give it oxygen and let it go away. It's almost - not always, but almost - always the best policy.