Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying
That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.
The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings.
A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.
You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.