I do think there will be winners and losers in the 21st century economy.

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.

Greatness can be bought with the currency of time.

It is not good for the spirits to dwell on that which cannot be altered.

We only need grace to get up, whenever we fall.

We tried to change Vietnam. Instead, Vietnam changed us.

The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking ... my feeling was even if it's as bad as I think it is we'll make it work.

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

On wedding day you should look like yourself at your most beautiful

I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.

Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity.

Squeezed for money, the affected households often need to lower the quality of their food, which then impacts the overall development of their children.