Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it's telling you something isn't right.

Expand your notion of what adversity is.

Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.

50 is a great person. I was a little intimidated when I met him for the first time in 2006. I didn't know what to expect. It ended up we got along really well. That's why we decided to do a book together, The 50th Law of Power.

Here in Beacon, I feel like this was the worst year yet. The entire town, like a lot of winter towns, just kind of holed up in the winter.

Movie theaters barely make any money. A movie can make a couple of thousand dollars, or could get lucky and make ten or fifteen thousand dollars, but theatrical releases don't really sustain the work. For me, it's the best sort of advertisement for anything else you'd want to do.