We may not be able to witness our own eulogy, but we’re actually writing it all the time, every day. - Arianna Huffington

Montaigne: “To practice death is to practice freedom.71 A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.” Being a slave to our job and our status in the world makes it much harder to put our day behind us and surrender to sleep.

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.

And Cindi came up with a new trick to use if she was having trouble falling asleep: “Counting backward from 300 by threes — it works like magic and you never get below 250.” On the few occasions when I feel too wired to sleep, my panacea is a hot bath with my favorite bath salts.