A writer, he says in the novel, is a kind of master of magic and that every morning he toss the letters on the typewriter up in the air "and when they come down again I sort them out and then there's enough money to buy hot dogs, cross-country skis, ice cream, red roses for Mommy and maybe enough left over for a bottle of decent single-malt whisky for your devoted, ever-loving, incomparable dad".
"By the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over," Fleming said.
suggestion that he couldn't afford a tax hike because he had only "maybe $400,000 left over" from his $6.3 million in business profits.
Don't forget to take a moment to hoist a frosty one to the sweat and toil of the ordinary American who puts in 40 hours a week trying to pay off a mortgage and feed 2.3 kids with maybe enough left over for a trip to a theme park without having to auction the car off in the parking lot.
Maybe some residue left over from the Jeremy Lin energy bubble or something.
Maybe it was imagery left over from the service at St. James.
Perhaps it's left over from the economic boom of the late 1990s, or maybe it's a generational phenomenon.
"We put so much into our jobs and into the kids, maybe there wasn't much left over for each other," said Ms. Shiber, 57, a Methodist minister based in the Oakland, Calif., area whose ex works on the business side of the church.
Not so long ago, if you joined a startup in the early years and it sold for north of a billion dollars, you might not be able buy an island and retire, but you at least could be assured of a beautiful home in South Bay and enough left over to maybe start your own experiment.
"All I really want is a roof over my head, a warm place to live, enough money left over to maybe go out to a play or a movie from time to time," she said.
