An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.

Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.

A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.

The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.

Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.

As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.

Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.