Quotes By Mason Cooley

In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.

I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.

Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

Money: power at its most liquid.

If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.

Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

A blocked path also offers guidance.

The real secrets are not the ones I tell.

In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.