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.

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.

Being in New York and having worked at Time Out New York and then being at Time, living in New York for a long time has helped because I know everybody. And they're the people who call me and give me jobs. So that kind of real networking, which is just living in a place and having jobs where people around you are extremely successful, has helped me tremendously.

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

It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize.

You don't really want an army of people making individual decisions. And I don't think I completely understood that until people gave me examples of what happens when your army takes over your government and it's like, "Oh, yeah, I guess you can't really have people make individual moral decisions."

There have been people who represent something very symbolic and I've been freaked out interviewing them.