The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
In general the problem in a relationship is when the couple stagnate.
Freedom is not an ideal it is not even a protection if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate to live without dreams to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
You know a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as like a soccer coach or as a teacher.