I think this is the other big issue that is not going away: Do we really believe that bit in the Constitution or not? I think we do.

Whether you're eighteen or sixty, in a certain way, whatever you know is valid.

Sometimes I just turn on the TV and I'm like, wait a minute, that guy [Donald Trump]? It's incredible that he did all those things and he still won. It's hard to process.

One of the ideas that runs through this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] is this Buddhist notion that the mind is incredibly powerful; not the brain but the mind.

Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.

For me, when I'm coming up to a place where I have to make somebody up, it's almost like driving and taking your hands off the wheel.

I'm comfortable with anything after the fact.