Fame is an ego-building but back-breaking state of being which -- rather like love -- is most comfortable in private, and most frightening when its loss is contemplated.
Source: In The New Webster's Dictionary of Quotations and Famous Phrases, by Donald Bolander, 1987.
-- Phyllis Battelle, (Jan 4 1922-____), US journalist; She had a weekly syndicated column, Assignment: America, 1955-88.