Having good relations with lots of lots of different people helps a lot.

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.

The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last

I’ve loved him since I’ve known him, Mrs. Daniels. He just finally stopped fighting.

Memories are truths we have chosen.

Life is brighter on the lighter side.

I hitched my wagon to an electron rather than the proverbial star.

How many whales do we really need? I figure five. One for each ocean.

If you can't use dividends, it's not a bad thing to give it back to your shareholders. They'll use it somewhere else.

Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.

Everything I needed to know I learned in Iowa... I know what it means to be from Iowa - what we value and what's important... I grew up here in Iowa.

As a first time director it's interesting, but not all that different from what I did before. A lot of parts of this job seem to be very similar to running a big company.