Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.

Tout ce que nous connaissons de grand nous vient des nerveux. Ce sont eux et non pas d'autres qui ont fondé les religions et composé les chefs-d'œuvre.

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

Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.

Both artist and neurotic speak and live from the subconscious and unconscious depths of their society. The artist does this positively, communicating what he experiences to his fellow men. The neurotic does this negatively.

The mark of the neurotic: to imagine that you're the only one who cares deeply for anything.

I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The essence of neurosis is conflict. But the essence of living now, fully, not blocking off to what goes on, is conflict. In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.

Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant or ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. Neurotics are heartless.

Ideas are the source of all things

Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.

Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.