Young men preen. Old men scheme.
Fortuna smiles and frowns according to a timetable surprising even to herself.
Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way.
The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.
My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.
The poor live slow and hard; the rich, fast and easy. The rest of us shuffle along as we may.