In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it

Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.