Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.

Because jurors have an extraordinary amount of power over the situation and of the people and the story in front of them, they tend to pay pretty intense attention to what's happening.

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

As a school board member, I might have particular views about the ways we might increase the economics curriculum in a local high school, but I'm not sure I should mandate that for the entire country.

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.

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.

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