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.

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.

...literary translators are the interpreters of human values - and the true peacemakers.

Poverty and sickness have this miraculous power of completely changing one’s priorities

Flowers wither away when put through harsh conditions. Humans, on the other hand, have a choice. A choice to wither away or blossom.

We all are filled up with vacuum.Just need the right one to burst out.❤ - The Drenched Writer

Style is the dress of thoughts.

I think when we talk of craft we talk of a certain set of processes, whether that be clay of glass if jewelry or textiles, and we look back through history instantly.

Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

I would literally do anything for Richard Curtis. Anything.

Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me.