Procrastination justification
“the tiniest impulse toward aptitude or self-surrender, let alone intrigue or adventure, peremptorily extinguished by the ruling triumvirate of Sanity, Responsibility, and Self-Respect, assisted handily by their devoted underlings: the timetable, the rainstorm, the headache, the busy signal, the traffic jam, and, most loyal of all, the last-minute doubt.”
Philip Roth, “The Ghostwriter”. New York 1979: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.