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.

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.

It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.

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

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?".

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. So the temptations of social media lead to some dissonance.