Young, gifted, and destitute.
The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.
Luck is believing you're lucky.
Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!
Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as "that old derelict." Not to my face, but behind my back.
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.