I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.

It was one of the easiest conversations I had with him.

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

In hindsight, ... I didn't look very smart on that one.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

But then, after having one or two conversations with Mike about it, he changed agents,