“As soon as I found myself losing trust in co-founders, my motivation plumetted to an all-time low.

“Somehow Just Shoot Me never quite lit up NBC’s primetime stable of hit sitcoms, but it did respectably well and now looks even better divorced from its television competition.

“I should have stopped drinking when I became pregnant.

“Transgenerational analysis is an analysis of the transmission of family culture in its broadest sense from one generation to the next, encompassing those patterns, styles, customs, ceremonies, secrets, myths and dysfunctions which determine the uniqueness of a family. It has also been defined as the decoding of influences in areas such as sexual behavior, patterns of communication, death and grief which then enable the family to gain the self-knowledge needed for a maturing and satisfying relationship.

“The grand plan on which the unconscious life of the psyche is constructed is so inaccessible to our understanding that we can never know what evil may not be necessary in order to produce good by enantiodromia, and what good may very possibly lead to evil.

“Enantiodromia (Greek: enantios, opposite + dromos, running course) is a concept introduced by psychiatrist Carl Jung meaning the superabundance of any force inevitably produces its opposite. For example, it has been applied to subject of the film The Lives of Others, to show how one devoted to a fascist regime breaks through his loyalty and emerges a humanist.

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

“Founded on May 14, 1607, Jamestown is commonly regarded as the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States, following many earlier failed attempts.

“A vast, multiethnic nation with a messianic view of itself and an often simplistic view of the rest of the world, stretched too thin beyond its borders and facing mounting challenges within them.

“Getting a job is like enrolling in a human domestication program.