When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.

Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all

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

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

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

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