Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.

The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.

The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.

The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out.

Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.

Neurotic: Someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.

The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.

Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.

The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.

Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.

The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.

There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.

At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.