Nature Is Cold, Wet, Hard And Unforgiving.

Everybody Has A Cartoon Of Themselves. Mine Is: I Write Very Fast, And I'm Ruthlessly Efficient With My Time.

I Don't Want To Romanticize The World In Which Everybody Watched Three Networks And The Washington Post And The New York Times And The Wall Street Journal Were Incredibly Dominant. That Time Has Passed.

From A Personal Point Of View, I'd Like To Interview My Great-grandparents Because I Barely Knew Them, And I Know Next To Nothing About My Family Beyond 100 Years.

Vladimir Putin Wants To Become The De Facto Head Of An Illiberal, Xenophobic, Hypernationalist Trend In World Politics.

There Are Days When You Might Enjoy Being An Editor A Little Less, Due To One Crisis Or Another. It Is Absolutely Vital, To Me, In A Period Of Technological Evolution And Sometimes Financial Stress That I And My Colleagues Not Only Put Out A Fantastic Magazine And Web Site And All The Rest, But Also That We Are Smart Enough About What We Are Doing.