Quotes By Mason Cooley

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

Orgasm: the genitals sneezing.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

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.

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

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.

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.