Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill.

The politics of personal destruction, the politics of division, the politics of fear, it's all there. It helps you to define the politics of moderation - the politics of democratic respect, the politics of hope - more clearly.

If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.

You're never really out of politics.

The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.