One problem with how we think about the Bible is that people tend to jam it into narrower categories, when in fact it is many things all at once.

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.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.

Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different.

There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.

The ones that make it complicated never get congratulated

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.

You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.