It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington.

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.

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.

But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood.

1. Feed off you. 2. Replenish you. 3. Repeat.

The moral foundation of the society, the way we interact with each other is more fundamental than the Supreme Court.

If the president Donald Trump thinks he can fire Deputy Attorney General Ron Rosenstein and replace him with someone who will shut down the investigation, he's in for a rude awakening.

I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I'm saying, and I track it.

Concentrate on your task.

Long ago I left heroics to the heroes

What if I was the sexual equivalent of popcorn? Suitable for light snacking only?

I think if you're going to show a true representation of any one life, it can't be about any one thing. I try to see more of a full picture, with the romance just a single part.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.