You can have somebody living next door to you and you can live in a completely different world from that person, which is definitely something we've never experienced before. So I think just because of the media landscape and the way we get our information now, we're more atomized and isolated from each other than ever before.

America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a Donald Trump.

If you look back in history, as the barbarians were invading the gates of Rome, people were consulting fortunetellers and worrying about the end of the world and all sorts of other apocalyptic notions. When the tsars were finally overthrown, they were all reading tarot cards even as the revolutionaries were banging at the gates.

By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.

Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.