He gave no advice, put his faith in the insolubility of problems. You never laid a glove on the serious stuff. Disease played for keeps and though he was no expert on world affairs, he new that if things as inanimate and impersonal and off to the side of real life as nations could get into difficulties they couldn't slip, people had no chance at all.

Stanley Elkin
George Mills

We seek to convert human misery into ordinary unhappiness.

Sigmund Freud