Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now? - Douglas Adams

And that, apart from a flurry of sensational newspaper reports which exposed him as a fraud, then trumpeted him as the real thing so that they could have another round of exposing him as a fraud again and then trumpeting him as the real thing again, until they got bored and found a nice juicy snooker player to harass instead, was that.

My capacity for happiness,’ he added, ‘you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.

I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.