Any democratic sentiment propels my politics.

I can fight for something in the name of democratization, although I don't use that word a lot anymore. Come on, man. I hate democratic capitalism.

I really try not to be like, "I'm an activist."

I'm a Nietzschean about human nature. The bulk of humanity is exhausted and superfluous, miscreant, confused, latently criminal, opportunistic. I rely on that. That's leverage, man.

I actually think the common anarchist position is that people are fundamentally good, blah blah blah. I don't believe that.

I'm not going to let Defense Distributed go into a pro-social NGO territory. "We should really have more women on the board." That's navel-gazing and destructive ultimately. You have to have a kind of white-hot core identity. So far, I'm in touch with it.

The sad thing about Trump is that everybody is secretly really relieved he got elected, of the people I know - the professional left and academic left.