In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

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

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you’re dead, you’ll have to write something. But the folks in my classes with the biggest ideas and the best publicity shots ready to grace the back covers of their best-selling novels are also usually the ones who aren’t holding any paper.

Nourish the world with your words, yo.