All we can ever know is that we know nothing,” the therapist says. “Do you know who said that?” Billy? A long time ago, Billy once said that. “Socrates,” she says. “Socrates said that.” My therapist is always quoting important people of antiquity during our session, people like Ovid and Horace, and this doesn’t bother me as much as you might think. I like knowing that my problems exist within a large and respected tradition of problems. That ever since the beginning of civilization, humans have been very upset.
