I have blocks of time where I'm working intently on something.

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.

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.

You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.

The paradigm for our relationships is formed from our earliest experiences and is actually hardwired into our neurological and emotional network.

Whether I'm interested [in something] or not, step one is read the script and figure out if a character is someone I'd want to explore or not.

When I have conversations with people, for some strange reason they think I'm gonna die and they're not. But you know what? Death means nothing to me.

If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it.

And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.

I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.

You're not turning the picture over to a system or a process, you are the process, and the most important thing is to have things exactly as you want them.