But the fast lane too gets to be a rut. - John Updike

You can go to the dark side of the moon and back and see nothing more wonderful and strange than the way men and women manage to get together.

No matter how cheerful and blameless the day’s activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong — you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into.

That's the genius of the capitalist system: Either you're rich, or you want to be, or you think you ought to be.