Alan King Quotes

I try to plan our meals for the week on Sunday.

We spend so much time sublimatin', thinkin' about, 'What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?'

Honestly, if I can plan out a few meals ahead of time, I feel much more organized.

I think I, like a lot of people, have that type of brain where I find it interesting or fulfilling to worry about something.

I'm manic about my schedule.

I over-think stuff a lot.

You get to a stage where you replay every scenario in your head, but you have to stop; otherwise, you drive yourself insane.

The people who know me do not ask me about the next book or how it's going. They ask, 'Jason, are you sleeping?' because they know my brain will not shut down.

I am wired on some deep level to seek out something to be worried and obsess about.

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

Worry is one of the most destructive scourges of mankind.

The worst part of fame is not always knowing what I’m doing the next day

I think I think too much. That's why I drink!

My life is nothing but pressure. All pressure. This pressure is like a heaviness. It's always on top of me, this heaviness. It's always there since I'm a kid. Other people wake up in the morning, 'A new day! Ah, up and at 'em!' I wake up, the heaviness is waiting for me nice. Sometimes I even talk to it. I say [adopts cheerful voice] 'Hi, heaviness!' and the heaviness looks back at me, [in an ominous growl] 'Today you're gonna get it good. You'll be drinking early today.'

God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.

Worry is just about the worst form of mental activity there is.

Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.

When I'm not working, I think and I think when I get depressed.

I don't dare start thinking in the morning. I don't dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head-- So I don't dare start thinking in the morning.

I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

What’s burning?” “Your brain.

Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work.

Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.