Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

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.

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

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.

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

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

New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter.