The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

Things always happen in series.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

I do admit that I've never been one to fit in easily to any given pattern. It's not my choice. It's just the way I am. So if the characters I wind up playing are all a bit different, it must be because that's the way I like it. Anna Kendrick is different, and she's going to stay that way.

When our daughter was born, a light went on for me - there was more to life than what I was doing. It felt like being famous for being a paint salesman. It wasn't the dream I was sold on. I'd had enough of it.

When you're in between the white lines, the game face is on. I was only focused on the task at hand - out, safe, ball, strike - leaving little time to think about how special a player, moment or game happened to be.

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.

Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

The biggest waste of time of my life was playing 'Call of Duty.' But I got really good at 'Call of Duty' - a little bit too good at that time.

Lets go back I know its been a minute. But I can do it better than I did when I did it. You were loving me I was loving you. You can come over and we can have deja vu.

We have found that the Ministry of Defence was slow in responding to the threat of improvised explosive devices and that delays in providing adequate medium-weight protected patrol vehicles should not have been tolerated.

But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

Within the soil of a discouraging season can often be the seeds of incredible blessing, miracles and breakthrough!

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

Don't just crit their siticising.

Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies.

Love yourself first, because that’s who you’ll be spending the rest of your life with.

Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.

After 'Kelis Was Here,' I was done. I was like, 'I will never put out another record again; I hate this business; I hate all these people.' I was in this race that I didn't even realise that I was in.

At 20, you're cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.

'Midnight Cowboy' is an exquisite piece of filmmaking. It's insane.

And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure.

Nobody is weirder than your own family, and I think teenagers feel that particularly acutely; the fact that you can walk five steps ahead of your parents and still be in the same family, but refuse to acknowledge it.

When we go to a restaurant, they don't ask, 'Do you want the asbestos section or the non-asbestos section?' They do ask, 'Do you want smoking or nonsmoking?'

I'll die before I'm 25, and when I do I'll have lived the way I wanted to.