Proust is, in many ways, an impossible man: a hypochondriac, a snob, a gossip, infuriatingly self-absorbed and neurotic.

"You're a very neurotic man, Mr. Felker," Wolf told him when they parted, "and someday the same thing is going to happen to you."

Fernie was a thin, neurotic man of perhaps forty years.

The sensitive, intelligent, amiable, neurotic man who will be your guide is none other than David Selig himself.

For once the neurotic little man might have got some straight facts.

The first person narrative revolves around three days in the early life of a neurotic old man.

But he objected to the notion that neurotic men could not be great leaders.

A neurotic young man once went to a Zen Master and asked how he could find peace of mind.

Cosmo was a strange neurotic man who shunned everything public and had few contacts with the outside world.