I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.