“It seemed as though he had a fundamental belief that the merit of his argument depended on the strength of his feelings about the matter, and since he always felt uncontrollably passionate about ev...”

“Terry Gilliam has spoken scathingly about my preference for physical comfort. I have come to the conclusion that this is very much his problem.”

“Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more complet...”

“All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent”

“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”

“Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.”

“Sometimes its hard to know when youve crossed the line from conscientious to compulsive. When youre in the thick of an assignment, its easy to believe that you must spend so much time brainstorming...”

“Perfectionism, of course, was something which even as a young man he had come to see as the innermost essence of talent.”