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- all bad guys smoke
- the leitenant is always crooked, and the captain is not, but the mayor is always breathing down his neck
- terrorists always have siblings that are trained for revenge
- strippers have hearts of gold, and cute kids
- the autistic kid / old bum / crazy cat lady, saw the crime
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"Life is possible only with illusions. And so, the question for the science of mental health must become an absolutely new and revolutionary one, yet one that reflects the essence of the human condition: On what level of illusion does one live?"
-- Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
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