I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.

People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter.

People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?"

Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.

One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politics.

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.

My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.

New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York.

There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.

Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

If your mind is not at peace you cannot find it anywhere else in the world.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.

If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you'll take up flying next, like that fellow in Metropolis.

The best methods are those which help the life energy to resume its inner work of healing

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.

It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.