Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.
To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy.
Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.
Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.