“Great men are not made by way of moderation. Those poets, musicians, athletes, entertainers, and all who we’ve come to admire never capitulated to temperance. Their iron forged in the fire of excess. To be weak is to give in. To be strong is to abstain completely, but to be great is to indulge in all the pleasures and pains of life, to swim through the drowning tumult and turbulence and fear.”
