Mignon McLaughlin

“We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.”

“Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.”

“If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.”

“The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.”

“Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.”

“The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.”

“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”

“For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.”

“Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.”

“It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.”

“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”

“Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.”

“Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.”

“If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.”

“No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.”

“A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.”