I think about people and events in terms of archetypes a lot.

This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.

I think about people and events in terms of archetypes a lot.

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics. 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?".

People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter.

If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's not competitive, it's something that you'll keep doing.

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