People have a crab mentality, man. They're walking sideways.

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.

History should be about every generation's will to power.

Any democratic sentiment propels my politics.

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.

When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power.

I love the example of Jefferson because he's willing to murder his government and then he becomes a president and then his face is in a mountain. Just because he exercised his power.