It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.

I feel like I owe it to the readers to try to pull back the veil and give them the honest version of what's going on. But it's not more fun. If Obama, as he does sometimes already, gets a little snippy with me about something I've written, you're thinking, 'Oh God, the president of the United States is already annoyed with me.'

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

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