Hardship makes the world obscure.
Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.
People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?
Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)