Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

We kind of have a reputation.

Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.