I'm going to have a project-based life rather than a job-based life.

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.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

The vital power of an imaginative work demands a diversity within its unity

I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

It doesn't matter how many times you say it. It'll still be true.' 'And it doesn't matter what you won't let me say, that'll still be true too.

Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command.

I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.

I believe now, as I alway have, that America's strength is in 'We the People.'

I don't want people to think of me as sexy.

Art is an investigation.