"The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be."

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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“If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong”
“Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy.”
“I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.”
“The religion of Jesus Christ is neither new nor strange.”
“Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.”
“I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.”
“I want to do #â€Ž stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, 'There's nothing like live #â€Ž theater , blah blah,' but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.”
“The Magna Carta is an early reminder of the crucial difference between freedom and liberty. Liberty is freedom that is unique to humans, it is guaranteed by law. All animals are free, but in a system of humans total freedom is anarchy. Humans have thrived by letting a dominant authority regulate freedom. Liberty is a freedom that the authority has granted or has been persuaded to grant. For centuries, the state and the people have negotiated, peacefully and violently.”

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