The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.