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[Woody Allen is a good example of someone who has great difficulty in accepting the world as it is. “The real world,” he says, “is a place I’ve never felt comfortable in.” Lots of people feel like that, but they don’t dwell on it the way Allen does. Doubtless he has excuses of temperament and circumstances, but he’s nursed this attitude in his art and probably given it a free pass in his thought, never subjecting it to serious criticism. Now he’s nearing the end of his life, and a three hour documentary on him ends with him observing—good humouredly enough—:]

When I look back on my life I’ve been very lucky that I’ve lived out all these childhood dreams. I wanted to be a movie actor, and I became one. I wanted to be a movie director and a comedian, I became one. I wanted to play jazz in New Orleans and I played in street parades and joints in New Orleans and played in opera houses and concerts all over the world. There was nothing in my life that I aspired toward that hasn’t come through for me. But despite all these lucky breaks, why do I still feel that I got screwed somehow?

Happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.

William Cowper

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