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

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

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.

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.

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.