A neurotic buildscastlesintheair, but a psychotic livesin them.

-Anonymous
c.1940  Popular saying.

Massermann, the cat man, Makes cats neurotic. 1899 Are cats and humans Similarly symptotic?

-Anonymous
  Popular jingle. Dr  Jules Massermann conducted some bizarre, behavioural experiments into animal neurosis.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger isalwaysthat hewill not recognize when he is dull.

-Auchincloss, Louis Stanton
  Pioneers and Caretakers:  A Study of Nine American Women Novelists.

To watch a football game is to be in prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game.

-Barzun,Jacques
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Name me one character in literature or drama who can't be described as neurotic† We wouldn't want to know the people we get to see on the stage. How would you like to have Medea for dinner? Or Macbeth slurping your soup? Or Oedipus with his bloody, blinded eyes dripping all over your tablecloth?

-Page, Geraldine
Attributed.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

-Plath, Sylvia
  The BellJar, ch.8.

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Lady Utterword. Heartbreak House, act 3.

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

-Szasz,Thomas Stephen
  The Second Sin.