When you're sitting down and you're blocked and you just start writing and something in your mind just clicks, you start seeing connections and so on, you really do feel like you're channeling something else.

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'

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.

Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.

I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

By the way, if I have my own cult of personality with my own geodetic dome in western Massachusetts, I will have a hurt yurt for anyone who crosses me.