Reporting is pretty vital to me. It keeps me connected to the world. A 40-hour-per-week day job may be less feasible as time goes on.

There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.

how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity?

It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.

I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

It must be nice to be so strong and to think it's because you're so good, that you live right and eat right, so you deserve your health and happiness. But there is such a thing as luck, and there's more bad luck than good in this world.

I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.