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

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.

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.

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics.

The greatest advantage of all is that when people think you're a witch, you can eat an entire serving of squash all by yourself.

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain and express what you really feel.

It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.

Be a king? Think not. Why be a king when you can be a God?

Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch.

Jon shrugged. 'Girls get the arms but not the swords. Bastards get the swords but not the arms. I did not make the rules, little sister.

On any given night, catch me on the floor, working up a sweat, that’s what music’s for.

Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.

If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.