I Can Only Control What I Can

We're Jews, My Family, And Jews Break Down Into Two Distinct Subcultures: Book Jews And Money Jews. We Were Money Jews.

...these Stories Are A Kind Of Beacon. By Making Stories Full Of Empathy And Amusement And The Sheer Pleasure Of Discovering The World, These Writers Reassert The Fact That We Live In A World Where Joy And Empathy And Pleasure Are All Around Us, There For The Noticing.

What Nobody Tells People Who Are Beginners… Is That All Of Us Who Do Creative Work, We Get Into It Because We Have Good Taste. But There Is This Gap. For The First Couple Years You Make Stuff, And It’s Just Not That Good. It’s Trying To Be Good, It Has Potential, But It’s Not… Your Taste Is Why Your Work Disappoints You… We Know Our Work Doesn’t Have This Special Thing That We Want It To Have. We All Go Through This… It Is Only By Going Through A Volume Of Work That You Will Close That Gap, And Your Work Will Be As Good As Your Ambitions.

I Just Feel Like There's So Many Movies I Haven't Seen That I Want To See, That I Would Never Go Back To The Same One. It's Funny Because All My Friends, They Have Movies That They've Seen Over And Over Again.

You Will Be Stupid. You Will Worry Your Parents. You Will Question Your Own Choices, Your Relationships, Your Jobs, Your Friends, Where You Live, What You Studied In College, That You Went To College At All... If That Happens, You're Doing It Right.