“More is lost by indecision than by wrong decision.”

The artwork

Carmela Soprano; later repeated by Tony Soprano in The Sopranos’s “Whitecaps”: Carmela invokes the maxim while urging Tony to decide on the beach house. Tony subsequently repeats it during his conversation with Johnny Sack about the proposed killing of Carmine. The same business-like advice migrates from domestic purchasing to a lethal decision. One path splits toward an attractive beach house and a red-black urban horizon. The illustration interprets the exchange rather than recreating its literal staging.