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?"

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

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.

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.

I think the very best attitude for anyone investing in the stock market is to make up his mind to lose money.”— The Duchess Gloriana XII

Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!

This is also an execellent time to ask this question: Did I get lazy and go for a quick rhyme?

Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.

The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions.

I'm an outdoor nut. If I'm not working, I'm on a tractor on my farm, hunting, fishing or climbing a mountain.

Nobody looks better than when they are helping someone else.

He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God.

Cross my wooden leg, swear on my glass eye.