At one point in his career, comedian Aziz Ansari felt trapped. He was doing it all—long press tours, performing night after night, juggling multiple projects, saying yes to everything, and chasing every opportunity to stay relevant. One night, feeling particularly stretched thin, Aziz ran into the musician Frank Ocean at a party. “Frank, how do you... See more

All these people you’ve known and loved – “they suffered and struggled so much, and then life is over,” said Scorsese. “You get to the point of saying, ‘Well, what does it all mean?’ It doesn’t matter what it means. You have to live it. And if you choose not to live it, you choose not to live it; that’s up to you. But you are existing and you live ... See more

Getting older is a relentless process of paring down. Getting older is an exercise in letting go. Let go of anger: “I’m at the age now where you just—you’ll die.” Let go of fitting in, of going up to Rao’s with important people. Let go of other people’s opinions: “That doesn’t mean you don’t take advice and you don’t discuss and argue, but at a cer... See more