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

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

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.

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

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.

I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.

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