Basically, I wake up, take care of my son for a little while, and then like, "I am gonna write!" And then I wind up.

You don't get anywhere without saying yes.

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.

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

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

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.

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.