If you can't feel secure - and teach your children to feel secure - about 1-in-610,000 nightmare scenarios - the problem isn't the world. It's you.

In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?

There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient data, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you have.

The best social insurance is to make more progress, not to make more work

Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectations.

Worldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world

Let us designate anarchism1 anarchism as you define it. Let us desiginate anarchism2 anarchism as I and the American Heritage College Dictionary define it.

Unto everyone that hath shall be given and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.

Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?

There have been years where I've had to take a real job and I wrote during slow times and lunches. I think never forgetting how lucky I am to be able to do something I love has really fueled me.

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

I cried when my ex-girlfriend sent me a text message saying how much she liked my present to her.