The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

You drive me crazy!””You were always crazy. I just highlight it.

For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

I don’t like psychiatry. I don’t believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.

The Decision…I wiped my hands on my pinaforenow sullied and stainednot crisp or pressedas it had been before…

Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we’re encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old...

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

And I know I’m paranoid and neurotic, I’ve made a career out of it.

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don’t you?

In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many...