People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.

Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.

A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.