I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.

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.

Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

Dancing daily is a good physical activity.

With 'Attachments, ' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.

It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those

Most announcers play pattycake, pattycake with the players they're covering.

Focus on where you want to go, not where you don't want to go.

Asexuality does not make our lives any worse or any better, we just face a different set of challenges than most sexual people.

When 'Desperate Housewives' ends, I think my girls will be about the kindergarten age. I will be so happy to be there for them through that huge transition.

The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.