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

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.

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

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in thetheatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

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.

If I was not allowed to mention that I was in the film industry, I could go six months without getting a kiss.

The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.

So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

My motto - sans limites.

Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.

Winning the Stanley Cup in '99 was a dream come true. I'll never forget it.

In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.

'Dirtbag' is just the term we use, like a 'gnarly dude' in surfing. Within the climbing culture, it means being a committed lifer: someone who has embraced a minimalist ethic in order to rock climb. It basically means you're a homeless person by choice.

There may be luck in getting a good job but theres no luck in keeping it.

I think, like everybody else in New Hampshire, when I pull up to fill up my car and I pay $50, I get upset. And I'm wondering if these prices are legitimate.

Games are starting to creep into every aspect of our day.

There is no such thing as ugly.

I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.

We used to look at Felipe as our guiding man that we listened to.

A testimony is a conviction, a quiet inward certainty of the reality of the living God, of the divinity of His Beloved Son, of the restoration of Their work in this time. It demands that we do what He has asked us to do.