I think I did 97 pitch meetings, and even at the 97th meeting, there were questions I was getting that I hadn't had in the - you know, any of the 96 preceding ones.

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.

I sound like an evangelist or something.

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.

When this world is full of fashion, be unique by reflecting your own style.

I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well.

I'm not a fan of chrome wheels. I sort of like brushed, brushed steel, more European style.

Wine, it's in my veins and I can't get it out.

As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.

Pay attention to what you're passionate about when no one is paying you.

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.

Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.

In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.