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One day, toward the end of a conversation I was having with the painter David Salle in his studio, on White Street, he looked at me and said, “Has this every happened to you? Have you ever thought that your real life hasn’t begun yet?” “I think I know what you mean.” “You know–soon. Soon you’ll start your real life.” … →

“Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.  It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists and makes it a little less difficult to practice those minor virtues of self-control and self-restraint, patience, discipline, and tolerance, which are the passive and not very exhilarating elements of goodness.  Goodness is the only value that seems in this world of … →

Happiness interview: Liza Palmer. Liza Palmer is a bestselling writer with a new novel, More Like Her. One element of the novel is our assumption that we understand the realities of other people’s lives–but really, we often don’t. The theme of happiness, and how to create a happy life, is a frequent theme in her novels, and I was curious … →

I’m so happy for my friend, the incomparable Molly Jong-Fast. Her new novel, The Social Climber’s Handbook, just came out. It’s a delicious, dark, biting story about some characters here in New York City — one of whom has a big, crazy secret. The novel is very funny, and at the same time, also extremely acute in its observations about … →

[Of her marriage to Leonard Woolf]: “The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.” – Virginia Woolf, Diaries, June 14, 1925 * Join the discussion on the Facebook Page — lots of interesting conversation there. And on Twitter, @gretchenrubin.