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"How did I prepare for night shifts? When I was a small, anxious kid, I checked my mom in her sleep to make sure she was still breathing."
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"As night goes round the Earth always there are hundreds of thousands of people who should be sleeping, lying awake, fearing a bully, fearing a cruel competition, dreading lest they cannot make good, ill of some illness they cannot comprehend, distressed by some irrational quarrel, maddened by some thwarted instinct or some suppressed perverted desire."

"Worrying about things that haven't happened yet is like riding on the hood of your car-what's the point?"

"Kids shouting and skidding in the playground with no idea what future Hells awaited them: boring jobs and ruinous mortgages and bad marriages and hair loss and hip replacements and lonely cups of coffee in an empty house and a colostomy bag at the hospital."

"It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand."

"Sometimes when I prepare to write, I feel the same sensation wash over me as if my toes were curling over the brink of a high cliff, my gaze peering downward into a dark pond, and I anxiously wonder, will the water prove deep enough? Will my words be satisfactory?"

"There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling."

"Worry is to human beings - what a condom is to a man with erectile dysfunction."

"So many of our problems begin when we start worrying what others think of us."
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"Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way."

"Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump."

"I'm not an insomniac. It's just that my mind is in the best position to catch the weight of all hovering possibilities the moment I lie down."

"When people say they're unemployed, bored, or have nothing to do, I sigh and think, "If only time were transferable."
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