Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
“I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.”
“So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman.”