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It is of no consequence what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.

To be too knowing is a downfall.

I am a libertarian with a small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R'. And I am a Republican with a capital 'R' on grounds of expediency, not on principle.

...My dad, may he rest in peace, taught me many wonderful things. And one of the things he taught me was never ask a guy what you do for a living. He said "If you think about it, when you ask a guy, what do you do you do for a living," you__e saying "how may I gauge the rest of your utterances." are you smarter than I am? Are you richer than I am, poorer than I am?" So you ask a guy what do you do for a living, it__ the same thing as asking a guy, let me know what your politics are before I listen to you so I know whether or not you__e part of my herd, in which case I can nod knowingly, or part of the other herd, in which case I can wish you dead.

Writers are cannibals. They really are. They are predators, and if you are friends with them, and if you say anything funny at dinner, or if anything good happens to you, you are in big trouble.

All drama is about lies. All drama is about something that__ hidden. A drama starts because a situation becomes imbalanced by a lie. The lie may be something we tell each other or something we think about ourselves, but the lie imbalances a situation. If you__e cheating on your wife the repression of that puts things out of balance; or if you__e someone you think you__e not, and you think you should be further ahead in your job, that neurotic vision takes over your life and you__e plagued by it until you__e cleansed. At the end of a play the lie is revealed. The better the play the more surprising and inevitable the lie is. Aristotle told us this