There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.

There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. They mistakenly think they want to get rid of government when instead they might just want to have greater access to power.

What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map 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.

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.

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.