Quotes By Mason Cooley

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

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.

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.

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

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

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

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.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

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