The problems of the world, AIDS, cancer, nuclear war, pollution, are, finally, no more solvable than the problems of a tree which has borne fruit: the apples are overripe and theyare fallingöwhat can be done?† What can be done about the problems which beset our life? Nothing can be done, and nothing needs to be done. Something is being doneöthe organism is preparing to rest.

-Mamet, David Alan
  Writing in Restaurants,'Decay: Some Thoughts for  Actors'.

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  Guide to Kulcher, pt.3, section 5, ch.19.