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.

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.

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.

People who don’t like conflict have an amazing ability to avoid it, even when they know it’s theoretically necessary

So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.

It's not the balanced life we remember, it's the beautiful life.

I want to bring something different to every film. I get a bit tired of actors who kind of are the same character in every film that they do.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

There's people who don't want to see bodies like mine or bodies like their own bodies.

I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general.

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.

No one can help me with my work. I think I do best when I am just left alone.

Inflation could be a very - is a likely consequence out of what's going on now.