A Thousand Years Ago, Scientists Who Wondered

One Of The Things I've Discovered At My Age Is I Must Have Enchantment. And That Was Not Clear To Me In My Earlier Years. When I Look At My Favorite Films, The Frank Capra - Even Scorsese, Even 'goodfellas,' What Makes That Movie So Remarkable Is There's Enchantment In Their World.

A Thousand Years Ago, Scientists Who Wondered About Consciousness And The Nature Of Reality Were Burned At The Stake. We Still Haven't Recovered From That And It's Left Us With A Culture That No Longer Investigates Consciousness, Except On The Fringes.

The Endings For All My Characters Seem Sufficiently Human And Messy For Me To Feel Comfortable With Them. In Some Ways They Have Only Moved An Inch, But Sometimes An Inch Is A Great Distance.

Unhappy Endings Can Be As Cheap As Happy Endings.

That's The Most Beautiful Thing That I Like About Boxing: You Can Take A Punch. The Biggest Thing About Taking A Punch Is Your Ego Reacts And There's No Better Spiritual Lesson Than Trying To Not Pay Attention To Your Ego's Reaction.