Quotes by Mason Cooley
Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.
– Mason Cooley
Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.
– Mason Cooley
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
– Mason Cooley
No dignity without distance.
– Mason Cooley
Faith moves mountains but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
— Mason Cooley
Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.
– Mason Cooley
I may forget my dignity, but you may not.
– Mason Cooley
Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?
– Mason Cooley
Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.
– Mason Cooley
After rejection – misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.
– Mason Cooley
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
– Mason Cooley
Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
— Mason Cooley
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
– Mason Cooley
Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.
– Mason Cooley
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
– Mason Cooley
Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.
– Mason Cooley
Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
– Mason Cooley
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
– Mason Cooley
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
— Mason Cooley
When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
– Mason Cooley
Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.
— Mason Cooley