I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it works, there is nothing like it.

My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that that would happen.

From a very selfish point of view, I'm enchanted by the idea that a politician can come along and speak simply and clearly and truthfully to an electorate as though they are grown-ups and to feel the electorate respond to that.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.

Generally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much.

I navigated the world as a hedge maze of constant fear and worry in which I might take the wrong turn and jeopardize the love of everyone around me and everyone on Earth. That's what I needed in order to survive.