Styles in wit change so.
If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.
Callous greed grows pious very fast.
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.