Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.

Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.

We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.

If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.

No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.