I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as anthropology and law and culture.

When you have spent too much time with something, you may lose sight of what's marvelous about it.

I'm going to have a project-based life rather than a job-based life.

Having good relations with lots of lots of different people helps a lot.

Any suggestion that Mexicans are fundamentally different from Americans should be taken as racist on its face; America, after all, is a pluralistic society, and Mexico is hardly the alien civilization that some (really, just Samuel Huntington) would suggest.

People who tend to invest are either going to invest in something where you're raising $5 million or they're going to invest in something where you're raising $1 million, but if you're trying to raise $2.5 million it's kind of a weird amount.

Slate is not a political magazine but a lot of what it does is politics.