I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears are more open to someone who is not a cantankerous bastard.
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.