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I`ve lived in Europe for the better part of 12 years, and I`ve noticed that one of the big errors Europeans make is to dismiss America as having no culture. That`s an incredible mistake, and whether it`s born of arrogance or neurosis caused by the fact that America is perceived as hugely powerful, it`s wrong. For a century or two, a decent percentage of the major writers, poets, artists, musicians, painters, filmmakers, actors, screenwriters, and dancers have been born in the U.S. Americans have acquitted themselves pretty well in those areas. There`s a great culture there, an enormous culture. I just don`t plain like a lot of it, but it`s OK if other people like it. (Late 1990`s qoute)

- John Malkovich

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can`t control it.

- Vincent D'Onofrio

A neurosis is a secret that you don`t know you are keeping.

- Kenneth Tynan

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you`d do something else.

- Lawrence Durrell

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone`s neurosis.

- William Styron

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

- Alois Hadamczik

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

- Andrew Berman

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

- Carl Gustav Jung

Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled with a personal, egocentric striving for superiority, and is therefore retarded in the development of his social interest, as we find regularly among

- Alfred Adler

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

- Anna Freud

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being

- Paul Tillich