Quotes By Mason Cooley

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

Never ask a bore a question.

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.