Besides, as I sometimes say, "Happiness is doing it rotten your own way. - Isaac Asimov

“The evil drink does,” said George, with a heavily alcoholic sigh, “would be hard to assess.”
“Not if you were sober,” I said.

form. "You adjusted him?" she shrieked. "But it was he who created my light-sculptures. It was the maladjustment, the maladjustment, which you can never restore, that — that —

Surely the relationship between inconveniences suffered and privileges granted was part of the very essentials of learning how to handle people without an explosion.