One of my favorite scenes is where he's coming under the effects of the drug in All the Rage while at Sutton Square, with Gia and Vicky. You're reading the text, and getting in his head, and you're realizing what a bad place he's going to. The amount of control he's able to exert over himself, to turn everything he has over to Gia, the trust in her, and the pressure on him ... It's fabulous.
And then, of course, he walks outside and deals with those two goons. Classic.
Throughout our history there are those ghosts
Compelled to illustrate our dreams and hopes
Victors hang in pictures, losers from ropes.
Regardless they all swing in the same boat.