If every negotiation is conducted in public, then the minute one person says, well, what if we try this, next thing you know, the interest groups have piled all in, and the political opponents have shot it to pieces.

People think that politics just somehow magically organizes itself. It doesn't work that way. You need to assemble these huge coalitions of 535 politicians on Capitol Hill, and tens of thousands of interest groups, and tens of millions of voters, and assemble all those in government to get stuff done.

A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism it means that we must allow people to err, even where the error offends and upsets, as it often will.

What we have done over the last 40 or 50 years is systematically attacked and weakened the parties, the political machines, the professionals, and insiders, and hacks, and all the tools that they use to get politicians to play well together. And with those gone, you get chaos.

Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.

For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.

In science we kill our hypothesis instead of each other.

There will be more coming afterwards if we don't re-empower politicians to get organized and work together.