We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.
Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.
If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.
Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.
There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.
Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.