"Even if you're working against the cliff face of some of the darkest and most devastating genocidal movements in capitalism, the trick is to bring joy to your revolt."

"Learning conventional journalism is not a bad thing to do, but it's like learning how to restore antique furniture when the world is full of Ikeas."

"It’s hard to deny stories. And I think that’s why stories are so important. And that’s why qualitative research is so important."

"There is a whole host of things that have to happen after that button gets pushed. And I think it's extremely desirable to hide all of that."

"That is an interesting tension in comics, because it is sort of self-evidently not 'the truth.'"

"If you want to fix [the media] by having 'The Bureau of Truth'...oops..that's going to make things worse."

"We treated Reagan, we treated Bush, and we treat Trump too often as if they're idiots. I have no idea whether they are or not, but I don't think that it's a good strategy to assume your opponent is an idiot."

"One of the quotes that Hannah Arendt said that I kept over my desk as I was writing is "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."

"We once, at least for a very brief moment, understood that the purpose of higher education was not just individual in nature but that it served a social good for us to have a broadly educated public equipped with the tools for social mobility."

"People can do terrible things. But you don't really appreciate the impact of what they've done unless you fully understand how complicated they in fact are."