I sound like an evangelist or something.

People found it unusual to leave a job where you're the boss.

Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that that involved.

When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've messed up.

А weekly column is really tough.

I want to have enough space to, I don't know, think thoughts. I mean, I just - I don't know that I'm capable of having an exciting, profound thought every week that's worth a column.

Slate is not a political magazine but a lot of what it does is politics.

It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington.

I have blocks of time where I'm working intently on something.

What is Atlas Obscura? So, it was a small digital media company. It's an atlas, it's literally like, an atlas of places, wonderful, unusual places.

The New York Times is the greatest media company around, arguably, and the people at the New York Times know a lot more about making a giant successful media company than I do.

There’s nothing like a friendly handshake to establish social cooperation, but the bonobo handshake takes erotic politics to a whole new level.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology... and you can build software then, around the user.

The styling takes you straight into the world of a specific film.

The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.

Your goal should be to take your body and make it as healthy, strong, flexible and well-proportioned as you can.

I believe, I believe that the people who voted in those primaries for Donald Trump were at least helping him along with his message of hate toward immigrants, toward Muslims.

All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie. She was learning to love.

A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.

You want people to feel comfortable to walk in their neighborhoods, go out and shop, do business.