Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

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

Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.