A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.

I wanted to go with a warm, cozy feeling. I didn't want to go too high-end so that I could get a variety of people here. It did get a little dressier than I expected, though.

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.

Nothing is less suspenseful than a threat that threatens the maker of the threat at least as much as the subject of the threat. Congress hasn't learned this yet, but America has learned it over and over.

Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.

Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.