Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.

In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either.

Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.

It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?