If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes.

Integrity is hard work. I do think the Internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform.

I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.

People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?"

One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politics.

You can't just provide power, you also need public education.

New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York.