“Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.”
“Neurosis is the way of avoiding nonbeing by avoiding being”
“To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.”
“There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. ”
“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.”
“The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.”