I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in...
Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too...
In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosi...
I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady.
But the Greeks and the Romans both believed in the idea of an external daemon of creativity—a sort of house elf, if you will, who lived within the walls of your home and who sometimes aided you in you...
There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse.
The Balinese don't wait and see how things go. That would be terrifying. They organize how things go, in order to keep things from falling apart.
Só porque a criatividade é mística, não quer dizer que não deva ser desmistificada - especialmente se isso significa libertar os artistas das limitações de seus delírios de grandeza, de seu pânico e d...
Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, The wise man is always similar to himself. -
I've had to keep defining and defending myself as a writer every single day of my adult life -- constantly reminding and re-reminding my soul and the cosmos that I'm very serious about the business of...
How many people have I heard claim their children as the greatest accomplishment and comfort of their lives? It's the thing they can always lean on during a metaphysical crisis, or a moment of doubt a...
Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one.
But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely m...
At some point, you really just have to finish your work and release it as is-if only so you can go on and make other things with a glad and determined heart.
The rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive thread of blame.
Bel far niente has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exqui...
You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures
I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.
My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was...