I was really poor for most of my adult life.

The world feels overwhelming to me on every level. Just the number of organisms that live on this planet. Our politics, our violence, psychology, emotions; there's just a lot going on, right?

After the First World War, it was, like, let's form the League of Nations, we have to learn to work together. It's the only way we're going to survive. And now it's like we're undoing these very fragile institutions that were built after the First and Second World Wars that were about nations working on a kind of global diplomacy for our mutual benefit. And we're undoing them at such rapid-fire pace.

There's a lot of psychological material that you inherit from your family.

Progress is always an exchange. We gain something, we give something else up. I'm interested in looking at some of what we are losing.

I was really poor for most of my adult life.

I don't think any of us thought Donald Trump could get this far.