All Stress Is Ultimately Related To Loss

The Trick To Making A Story Matter Is That Every Now And Then, Somebody You Care About Has To Go. If It's Somebody That You Don't Care About, Then It Doesn't Really Have - The Stakes Aren't There. But If You Do That Every Now And Then, Then The Story Matters To People. And There Are Actual Stakes Involved, Emotional Stakes.

Health Is A Return To Our Memory Of Wholeness.

What Appeals To Me In The Deuce Is Some Of The Same Things That Made Me Interested In The Wire, Which Is There Seems To Be A Theme Here Around Markets And Capitalism And Labour. This Is A Moment, 1971, Of Something That Was Under The Counter: Then Brown Paper Bags Suddenly Became Legal, Pornography. And It Was Really The Birth Of An Industry Which Is Now A Multi-billion Dollar American Standard. And These People Were The Pioneers At A Moment Where There Really Were No Rules, Then Suddenly There Was A Legal Industry That Was Allowed To Exist.

Acceptance Means Focusing On The Present While Assessing The Choices Available To You In This Moment. If There Are Many Possibilities, Make The Choice That Is Likely To Bring The Most Evolutionary Results. If There Is Only One Choice, Take It. If There Are No Obvious Choices, Relax And Accept The Fact That For Now, You Cannot Do Anything.

In The Wake Of Katrina, What You're Witnessing And What We Are Very Careful To Depict Is A Form Of Patriotism.