Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.
The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.
Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long.
Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.
There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.
The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.