“Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity”
“The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.”
“For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.”
“It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.”
“Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.”
“About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.”