I've always been a sort of curious and restless person. I've always wrestled with ambition.

To me, that's the foundational fact of my identity is that I'm a journalist and so it's hard to imagine putting anything else first.

I think facts and truth are essential to journalism but you need to reckon with emotion. You have to deal with how people feel, otherwise you miss the story.

I think, I just always carry this kind of happy sense of being able to come into any situation and know that I don't exactly fit in, but I can make a place for myself.

To me we're living in this very profoundly non-idealogical time where the real divide is between people who have power and people who either don't have power or feel that they don't have power.

Ability to have that sort of feedback loop with your readers to me felt incredibly powerful.

My father was very much a child of the counterculture movement and was drawn to the idea of alleviating poverty in the developing world, helping farmers diversify their crops and stuff like that.

Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it.

I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.

When I wrote I took on the role of the despondent and difficult to understand person. Whereas in life, I was easy to understand, to the point of being simple-minded maybe.

Communities need to hear the liberating power of the gospel

When you're in the desert, you look into infinity.... It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.

The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music.

On his teenage son: To be honest, I'm not sure the same kid comes home each night.

I don't watch much television. Yeah, that's pretty funny. I don't know where The Daily Show stand politically, do you?