Not Fade Away Quotes

“If you’ve got your health, you can always make some money. But all the dough in the world can’t buy back your health. Isn’t it clear that the person who compromises his health in the name of making money is cutting himself a really lousy deal?”
― Peter Barton, Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived ― A Touching Memoir About Show Business and Terminal Illness

“Money is not the root of all evil. But maybe the lack of money is.”
― Peter Barton, Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived ― A Touching Memoir About Show Business and Terminal Illness

“The only reason a leap is scary is that a landing must inevitably follow.”
― Peter Barton, Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived ― A Touching Memoir About Show Business and Terminal Illness

“I was a nobody. But at least I was a nobody
who believed that wonderful things could happen, that the world I lived in was benign and would give me at least some of what I hoped for.”
― Peter Barton, Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived ― A Touching Memoir About Show Business and Terminal Illness

“Finding the point became the point. That was the realm in which I still had everything to gain.”
― Peter Barton, Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived ― A Touching Memoir About Show Business and Terminal Illness