The one thing that's always been the center of my political thinking - and it goes back to when I was 19 and editor of my college paper - is an abhorrence of the extreme.
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One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.
I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper.
My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.
It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.
I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.
I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
Many writers are radical. I am not, because of my age and because of my terrible fear of demagogy.
I think it's my interaction with journalists that has pegged me more as political than my actual records, although they have obviously political aspects to them as well.
Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.
Politics is tricky for me. For most of my life, I didn't think it applied to me.
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