People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive cataclysm of the soul.

We are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other.

We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.

What's sort of remarkable is that, especially in the Israel and the Russia cases, you have got a U.S. citizen, Donald Trump, siding with a foreign leader against the U.S. president. There is a reason why president-elects have tried to remain mute during their transitional periods, relatively, because you just don't want to be for somebody - some other country against your own government, and especially when you're about to take the helm of that government.

Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge.

It's always dangerous to overinterpret what Donald Trump says at any one moment.

If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.