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.

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.

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.

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."

I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.

If New Vegas foretells something about America's future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost.