"I moved at age 22 to Montana to be able to walk in really wild woods, where the chances of being killed by a bear or mountain lion are not zero."
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"Modern life, especially with young children, so often seems like a mad rush... We so rarely take time to just do nothing - not look at our phones, not read the news."
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"I firmly believe that if we all just took a little time - like 10 or 15 minutes a day - to do nothing but sit calmly with our thoughts, this world would be a much better place."
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"I always fancied myself an outdoorsman, even though I'm a Jewish guy from the East Coast."
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"I spent 12 years traveling more than six months a year. I really needed to see the world."
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"There's a difference between lying and not being straight."
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"Frightening things happen in solitude."
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"I'm always theoretically opposed to capital punishment as a matter of policy; like, I don't believe a state should put its citizens to death."
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"I'd lied many times: to bolster my credentials, to elicit sympathy, to make myself appear less ordinary."
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"I think many people have this sense that something about modern society - the screens, the noise, the traffic, the constant busyness - has approached a point where living in the world feels somewhat unhealthy."