Egyptian Proverb: The worst things:

To be in bed and sleep not,

To want for one who comes not,

To try to please and please not.

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

Notebooks

From my own notebooks, April 5, 1996

I have to say, as an insomniac perfectionist in a long-distance relationship of eight years, I can't help but feel that Fitzgerald and the proverbial Egyptian have really hit this nail on the head.