Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.
I got lost somehow, began staring up her legs. I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw when I was born. But then I was trying to get out. Ever since I have been working in the other direction and with pretty lousy luck.
I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own one. the luck of the fool is inviolate.
Sometimes there's luck, When there is you stock up on it and wait for the other times
In New York you've got to have all the luck.
a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )