I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?
What destroys one man preserves another.
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie
Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.
As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.
For souls nobly born, valor doesn't await the passing of years
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'
Sometimes I'll say, "I wrote that book," and the person will look at you as if you're really strange. One time that happened to my daughter on a plane. She was sitting next to a girl who was reading one of my books and my daughter said, "My mother wrote that book. " And the girl started to quiz my daughter, asking her all sorts of questions, like what are the names of Judy's children and where did she grow up. My daughter thought it was so funny.
Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, where Faith obtains its more or less voluntary surrender. In both cases, the result of the elimination of individual autonomy is - automatism. Both Faith and Terror reduce the human entity to a formula that can be manipulated at will.
There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.