“If relaxed means limp, don't worry about it. I'm relaxed. I'm relaxed all over.”
The Spy in the Ointment (1966)
Context: The cops are after me, I'm on my way to join an organization of lunatics and bombers, I'm wired for sound, my necktie turns into a smokescreen, my handkerchief will make you throw up, my Diner's Club card explodes, I'm the leader of a subversive terrorist organization composed entirely of undercover federal agents, newspapers all over the country are saying I killed my girl, and I'm on my way to meet a twenty-five-year-old Nazi built like Bronco Nagurski. If relaxed means limp, don't worry about it. I'm relaxed. I'm relaxed all over.
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American novelist 1933–2008Related quotes
CNN-Telemundo Republican debate http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-blm-carlson-6454d89c-dc90-11e5-8210-f0bd8de915f6-20160226-story.html (25 February 2016)
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"The Man on the Stairs" in Fence (Spring/Summer 2004)
Variant: Write. Don't think. Relax.
Source: Zen in the Art of Writing
“The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.”
“If I'm in a bad mood, my thing is I go clean! That's what relaxes me! I go and clean everything.”
Tigerbeat interview (2006)
As quoted in "British sensation Lawson says cooking should be about fun, family" by Beth Cooney in Oakland Tribune http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20030604/ai_n14551204 (4 June 2003)
Source: "The Storyteller" (1936), p. 91