Uma calma doentia

GEORGE: (…) Do you know what it is with insane people? Do you?...the quiet ones?
NICK: No.
GEORGE: They don’t change.
NICK: They must.
GEORGE: Well, eventually, probably, yes. But they don’t...in the usual sense. They maintain a...a firm-skinned serenity...the...the under-use of everything leaves them...quite whole.
NICK: Are you recommending it?
GEORGE: No. 

[Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1962]