"Overcoming Writer's Fear: Well, you hit on something that is definitely consistent across anything I do. And that is what you need to do as a writer in order to get your brain to not be terrified of the thing you signed up for is reducing the amount of blank space you have to deal with at a time."

"Perspectives on Writing Styles: But, listen, man, if you're getting, like, to me, it's like, just get words down. And some people like to write books all longhand. I mean, there's, there's plenty of writers that have made a living doing that."

"Space Exploration Controversies: And people were saying at the time, you know, we have a lot of problems here on earth. Why would we spend this money?"

"Experience of Self Realization Fellowship Interview": "And they say that after sitting here for a while, you might feel his presence in you as you leave here, whatever."

"The Impact of Social Media on Adolescence: We're the crop, we're the harvest. This is all about how much childhood has been overwhelmed by it and what that means, which is suicide rates and depression."

"Drug Policy and Individualism in America: He described Portugal as this place where they took all the enforcement and punishment for drug use and sales and put it all into addiction, legalized drugs, put all into into addiction treatment and housing and this in this thing. And, you know, we, you know, and it worked, you know, their addiction fell, but, but, you know, that won't apply here because we are so individualistic as a country and always have been."

"Individualism and Support Systems: You have to do it on your own because there won't be some systemic fix. And some people need something that can, some people will need to press the button, right? Some people will need to because they can't, you can't actually do it on your own, right? You have to find some way to do it. Like you have to plug in, whether it's in your case, a 12 step system that helped kind of you along or whether it's therapy or whether it's support groups or whatever it is, you can't, you know, Noom, you can't do it really, actually do it alone."

"Skepticism in Society: We're all selectively skeptical."

"Rethinking the Food System: The problem is this food system is broken. And so, you know, in order to get to the point where we can talk about getting rid of animal farming, it's like a much bigger conversation, about changing the food system fundamentally from this extractive, impositional kind of dominator culture way and going back to a more communicative, integrative way of being."

"Misleading Marketing Practices: 'Anyone who's saying something but not telling you the whole truth, I think you're contributing to the confusion and the chaos that we're all living with today.'"