Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.
The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.
Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.