We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

Freudian therapists do a lot of listening and very little persuading, and that was one of the reasons I eventually gave up being an analyst. You had to be too passive and not speak up, and you couldn't give homework to clients. While I was still an analyst, I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit psychoanalysis after practicing it for six years.

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it. Then I found that it intensively went into every irrelevancy under the sun - and that it didn't work. People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.