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.

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.

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.

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.

Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.

We both loved her. And you couldn't control who you loved, even if you wanted to.

Socialism is the way, the truth, and the light.

I mean I love my family very much, but there is a difference when you're reuniting with your family outside of your hometown and reuniting in the family home.

If the Savior could die for the world, can't we work for it?

I think that as a society as well, we need to be smart about what technologies we take up and how construe progress.

The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.

The reason to have more racial diversity on any team is because it's helpful to have different perspectives on any issue. And I also believe that. It's easier said than done, unfortunately.

The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.