Quotes By Mason Cooley

Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.

Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.

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

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

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.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

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.