A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. - Robert Benchley

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now." I am willing to concede something to the phrase "Have you anything to say before the current is turned on?" That may be worse for the moment, but it doesn't last so long. For continued, unmitigating depression, I know nothing to equal "The doctor will see you now." But I'm not narrow-minded about it. I'm willing to consider other possibilities.

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.