Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.
My neglected duties crowd around me in my dreams, murmuring.
If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.
As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success.
Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.