Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do. – Paul Simon
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. – Henry Adams
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. – R. D. Laing