The two most radical things you can do in America are to slow down, and to talk to each other. If you do these things, you will improve your country.

True freedom has more to do with following the North Star than going whichever way the wind blows. Sometimes it seems like freedom is blowing with the winds of the day, but that kind of freedom is really an illusion. It turns your boat in circles. Freedom is sailing toward your dreams.

If there's a therapist who wants a writing project, I think there's a need for a book about how the culture affects the mental health of boys.

Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves.

I'm a perfectly good carrot that everyone is trying to turn into a rose. As a carrot, I have good color and a nice leafy top. When I'm carved into a rose, I turn brown and wither.

Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive

Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.