Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.
John SteinbeckAny man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.
John SteinbeckIt is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.
John Steinbeck