Who said “I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet,…”?

“We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.”

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”

“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.”

“If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.”

“Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.”

“I'm as pure as the driven slush.”

“I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.”

“Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.”

“It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.”

“Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, ''I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.''”

“No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.”