The sad thing about Trump is that everybody is secretly really relieved he got elected, of the people I know - the professional left and academic left.

There's more roles now to fill since Trump's in. There's this refusal of power. I think progressives are actually literally uncomfortable with the exercise of power, because of what you learn. When you're too educated you understand the total disconnect of the exercise of power.

I really try not to be like, I'm an activist.

I love the example of Jefferson because he's willing to murder his government and then he becomes a president and then his face is in a mountain. Just because he exercised his power.

All activism is fake activism.

The technology will break gun control. I stand for freedom.

When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power.

I'm a Nietzschean about human nature. The bulk of humanity is exhausted and superfluous, miscreant, confused, latently criminal, opportunistic. I rely on that. That's leverage, man.

I actually think the common anarchist position is that people are fundamentally good, blah blah blah. I don't believe that.

History should be about every generation's will to power.