Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own.

Over the years, I developed a theory about why writers are such procrastinators: We were too good in English class. This sounds crazy, but hear me out.

The up side of down: why failing well is the key to success.

It is a vast, and pervasive, cognitive mistake to assume that people who agree with you (or disagree) do so on the same criteria that you care about.

We have made it impossible for children to fall very far—and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.

Be the great person you were always meant to be.

My lips and eyes and heart were stinging when you kissed me in the dark. — Jack Garton to Jennifer Hammer, 2008 (age 24)

I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.

I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others.

His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.