I am not an Internet superstar.

I am a marginally employed person who can escape with my school teacher wife to the waters of Maine for much of the summer.

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.

To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

I think that I'm reaching a point in my life and in my career where soon it will be important for me to get out of the way and let younger, hungrier, more interesting people do what it is that I do. Maine is a wonderful place to hide, because no one ever looks for you there. And the goal of every person in Maine, whether native or from away, seems to be to mitigate as possible all human interaction. So it's a good place to disappear in.