“My anxieties have anxieties.”

“My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.”

“It’s been my experience that people always assume that generalized anxiety disorder is preferable to social anxiety disorder, because it sounds more vague and unthreatening, but those people are totally wrong. For me, having generalized anxiety disorder is basically like having all of the other anxiety disorders smooshed into one. Even the ones that aren’t recognized by modern science. Things like birds-will-probably-smother-me-in-my-sleep anxiety disorder and I-keep-crackers-in-my-pocket-in-case-I-get-trapped-in-an-elevator anxiety disorder. Basically I’m just generally anxious about f***ing everything. In fact, I suspect that’s how they came up with the name.”

“I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance…and if you have anxiety about initiating a project, then of course you will associate risk with failure.”

“The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.”

“The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.”