One of the things I try to do - and I always regret when I'm not doing it - is I try to read as much as possible as I'm consuming news.

One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.

No generation has escaped it - one morning, your skill with the eight-track or the record player or the cotton gin suddenly ceases to impress. It's just one of those inevitable disappointments that come with growing up, like the realization that Santa doesn't exist or the way that music always takes a turn for the worse after you turn 30.

People feel compelled to continue reading and hearing the news. Sometimes, you just want somebody to be yelling at it with you as you're reading it. I think of that as my function.