I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed. - James Thurber

He would say to a suitor, “What is the difference in the length of my legs?” and if the youth replied, “Why, one is shorter than the other,” the Duke would run him through with the sword he carried in his swordcane and feed him to the geese. The suitor was supposed to say, “Why, one is longer than the other.

"You mere device," he gnarled. "You platitude! Your Gollux ex machina!"

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.