Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.
It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?
It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.