This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.

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.

In spiritual moments we nearly perceive a grand, divine conspiracy of interconnectedness between us and everything.

Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.

I don't consciously beat the drums for any cause, not even the negro in the United States.

We talk about mental toughness all the time. That's the biggest thing good teams have, that they can overcome adversity.

Rather than focus on the negative aspects of change, which is loss, I focus on the adventure of it and say "What's next?"

The only path by which another person can upset you is through your own thought.

We have never seen a career like George Strait's in this business, and I venture to say we never will again. He has handled things amazingly well.

I wanted to be like my heroes, but I also wanted to be me.

THERE'S NO OTHER WAY to find out whether or not you'll be successful other than just doing it

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.