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“Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.” —Viktor E. Frankl

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A man lies on his living room floor. His eyes are closed, arms by his side. His face is still, even, but occasionally furrowed.

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I see her decision to go out with friends, to lunch with a male work acquaintance, to knit, to sleep with her back to me as meaningful, as a statement about me.

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Irony posits two realms: the eternal, or divine, and the temporal, mortal, physical. We live in this world with its laws and constraints, its culture and bodies.

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There’s the very basic principle that you aren’t likely to win people to your cause by calling them an asshole.

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It’s a matter of posture, a mode of standing in the world, towards the world, towards your self: a question of what you seek, I suppose, even if what you seek is the end of seeking.

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Today is International Workers’ Day, where workers across the globe gather together and pretend there’s something great about being a worker.

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The Ultimate Warrior was my childhood hero, the first hero that I ever had.

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We pretended these famous thinkers were Shibes.

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Like you, I have a few secrets I never tell anyone. But dear readers, there’s one secret I want to tell you. It taught me a great truth: There’s nothing to fear from failure. I know this firsthand.