Quotes By Mason Cooley

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

Folly always knows the answer.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

The body has a mind of its own.

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

The time I kill is killing me.

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

Many gloat over their own troubles.

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.