David Levy

“It always is...until it's not.”

“Winning isn’t as fun as losing is miserable.”

“Emotion trumps logic.”

“All’s well that changes least.”

“Things could always be worse. In fact, the overwhelming odds are that they will be.”

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

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

“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.”

“To the optimist, pessimists are neurotic; to the pessimist, optimists are deluded.”

“Facts are like kryptonite to teenagers.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Nowadays, the absence of catastrophic news is great news.”

“I would do anything to keep indulging...including quitting indulging.”

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

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

“There are only three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.”

“Insight is the booby prize of life.”