Nobody expects anything, nobody hopes for anything-we are all crushed by a kind of nervous breakdown.

We are worried about where all of this is heading. Dialogue is what should have happened before. The situation is now blocked. It's an explosive situation where the political institutions are discredited.

Here comes your 19th nervous breakdown.

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

Why not? I'm obviously having some kind of nervous breakdown. I'll just ride it out and see where it takes me, Zelda Fitzgerald - style.