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

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.

I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.

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

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.