We all hope. It's what keeps us alive. - David Mamet

It's called a confidence game. Why? Because you give me your confidence? No. Because I give you mine.

Yes, well that's very cute, but you're running this office like a bunch of bullshit.

Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience. To think of a plot that is, as Aristotle says, surprising and yet inevitable, is a lot, lot, lot of work.