А weekly column is really tough.

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.

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.

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.

God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

Planning stuff out sucks. If you plan stuff out, you wind up talking in a very monotonous, unnatural way.

I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.

Pay as much attention to the things that are working positively in your life as you do to the things that give you trouble.

The usefulness of the pot lies in its emptiness.

One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.