Caroline Mays

What makes us feel liberated is not total freedom, but rather living in a set of limitations that we have created and prescribed for ourselves.

"If you're 37... Instead of regretting that you can't wake up age 18 again, pretend to yourself that you're 90 and you've woken up age 37 again, and that you get to magically, wonderfully have the next 50 years again."

"Sooner or later we all sit down to a banquet of consequences."

"Focus on the things you are for, not the things you are against.

Many people spend large chunks of their day thinking about what they hate. They are always telling you about something they dislike: this food, that subject, this political party, that coworker.

You are more than your frustrations. Build your identity around what you love."

“Like the ants, we relate to strangers based on whether they share our identity,” Moffett writes. But whereas ants use odour to identify one another, “for Homo sapiens just about anything will do... Humans evolved to be living billboards for their identities.” We are deeply concerned about the story-of-self that we broadcast to others. Historically... See more

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

you're efficient, you're doing it the wrong way. The right way is the hard way. The show was successful because I micromanaged it-

every word, every line, every take

every casting. That's my way of lifevery edit,