The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“If you're doing your best, you won't have time to worry about failure.”
“Don't worry, the operation won't take long and you'll feel much better in the morning.”
Onstage introduction to The Celebration of the Lizard
Context: Alright listen man, we got a special treat for you now. This is a little tour-de-force that we've only done a couple times in front of strangers, and it starts off kinda quiet, so if everybody just kinda relax, take a few deep breaths, think about your eventual end and what's gonna happen tonight; and we'll try and do something good to your head, right man?
I don't know if you're aware of it, but this whole evening is being taped for eternity and beyond that too. And so listen man, if you want to be represented in eternity with some uncouth language then I hope you'll stand up on the top of your seat and shout it out very clearly or we're not going to get it on tape.
Don't worry, the operation won't take long and you'll feel much better in the morning.
“The dead won't bother you, it's the living you got to to worry about”
Robert Ressler interview (1992), seen in John Wayne Gacy: Devil In Disguise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUi-m3Ugo-g
“To be neurotic is to spend one’s life perpetually replacing one worry with the next.”
Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)
