Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.

One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.

God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.