Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.
Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.
Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.
The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.
No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn.
Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.