Quotes By Mason Cooley

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

Young men preen. Old men scheme.

Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

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.

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

Never try to leap from a standstill.

The time I kill is killing me.

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.

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

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.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

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

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.

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.

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

The body has a mind of its own.

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.