And Now, Deep Thoughts About ‘Deep Thoughts’

“Deep Thoughts,” which were later collected in a series of popular volumes, were designed to satirize the genre of the feel-good affirmation. Examples include: “If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.” And: “As the evening sun faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.”