David Levy

"Nowadays, the absence of catastrophic news is great news."

"Social psychology is the scientific study of the obvious, which invariably leads to conflicting results."

"When a psychoanalyst takes on the role of a blank screen, all he really learns is how the patient responds to people who try to act like they’re a blank screen."

"I would do anything to keep indulging...including quitting indulging."

"Don’t worry, there will always be something to worry about."

"All’s well that changes least."

"The human capacity for denial and rationalization is always shocking, but never surprising."

"Intuition is usually the first word, and is sometimes the last word, but should never be the only word."

"To be neurotic is to spend one’s life perpetually replacing one worry with the next."

"When it’s bad, I get depressed; when it’s good, I get nervous."

"There are two types of people in this world — those who think that there are two types of people in this world, and those who don’t."

"I used to fear that taking medication would change my personality; now I fear that it won’t."