But shame, a breaking open of the heart before God, leads, so the Rabbis say, to that true self-knowledge necessary for change. - David Mamet

Cop couldn't find his fucking couch, the living room.

True to our past, we live and work with an inherited, observed, and accepted vision of personal futility, and of the beauty of the world.

"The Godfather, A Place in the Sun, Dodsworth, Galaxy Quest — these are perfect films. They start with a simple premise and proceed logically, and inevitably, toward a conclusion both surprising and inevitable. [From the chapter "The Script."]"