I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.

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.

You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the number of laws? Number of employees? You could make arguments for either one. I tend to think the axis of the size of government is the wrong concern. But I do think that situating power more locally is a legitimate approach.

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?".

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'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.