Mason Cooley

Tears are great peace-makers.

— Mason Cooley

Fluency avoids hard thoughts.

— Mason Cooley

Leisure unmasks our weaknesses.

— Mason Cooley

Yawns are hard to refute.

— Mason Cooley

The world needs an enema.

— Mason Cooley

It is not confused. We are.

— Mason Cooley

A: Everything changes. B: But not enough.

— Mason Cooley

Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

— Mason Cooley

Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

— Mason Cooley

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

— Mason Cooley

You are so tactful that I have no idea what you want.

— Mason Cooley

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

— Mason Cooley

I am no longer in love, but I still have my jealousy.

— Mason Cooley

Every few years something new breaks into the circle of my thoughts.

— Mason Cooley

With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.

— Mason Cooley

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

— Mason Cooley

Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.

— Mason Cooley

A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach.

— Mason Cooley

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

— Mason Cooley

Irony dissolves sentiment, but occasionally a sentiment is strong enough to dissolve irony.

— Mason Cooley

I am often attracted to people with whom I could not hold a five minute conversation.

— Mason Cooley

I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors.

— Mason Cooley

The closeups of pornography make human genitals look like undiscovered prehistoric animals.

— Mason Cooley

Discontented women dream of being rescued by Prince Charming. Discontented men dream of finding a horny blond in the back seat ofa…

— Mason Cooley

Self-reform is the only kind that works.

— Mason Cooley

Do as you like--if you know what it is.

— Mason Cooley

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

— Mason Cooley

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

— Mason Cooley

I resist change even as I call for it.

— Mason Cooley

My secrets are petty but humiliating.

— Mason Cooley

Winning means outlasting everyone else.

— Mason Cooley

Money comes to life as it is spent.

— Mason Cooley

Fear regulates. Appetite impels.

— Mason Cooley

Tolerance is a placid contempt.

— Mason Cooley

In love as in art, good technique helps.

— Mason Cooley

Self-pity makes people callous.

— Mason Cooley

The young are amazed when they suffer.

— Mason Cooley

No dignity without distance.

— Mason Cooley

Reason cannot break out of its own loop.

— Mason Cooley

Money: power at its most liquid.

— Mason Cooley