The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.
“I have received so many messages of support from across the country - women and men speaking out because they agree that contraception needs to be treated as a basic health care service.”
“Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.”