A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.

Life is short, death is forever

A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.

To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when they're really little. They figure out that if they're really funny, or really pretty, or if they work really, really hard or are really smart, then that's what's going to get them by. That is what is going to make people like them.

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Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose.