Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

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

It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

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.

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