Quotes By Mason Cooley

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.

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

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.

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.

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

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

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

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

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.

Hatred observes with more care than love does.

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

While there's life, there's fear.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.