Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.

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

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

My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.

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.

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