One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy. [...] Sentiment is not mushy.

Donald Trump's got to do some big changes, because what he was voted on. But when you think about how to do it, it would take massive expertise, which his people, believe me, do not have.

We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.

If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.

Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and in increasing success.