Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless.

An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.

I don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies.

Forget about someone's resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn't lie.

Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection.

Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.

Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.

We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.

No picture, no footage, no story. The people these days require some visual evidence in order to believe what they read.

Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company.

That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?

The real Jihad is an internal process, not an external one.

your life can change in an instant. that instant can last forever.

I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.

I was thought to be "stuck up." I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.

I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity.

We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

To believe when all means fail is exceedingly pleasing to God and is most acceptable.

He was still frowning at the cake, looking at it as if he expected it to sprout dozens of legs and begin scuttling toward him, thin-lipped, teeth bared.

When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

Predictability can lead to failure.