Mason Cooley

The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances.

— Mason Cooley

The right time to die is never exactly now.

— Mason Cooley

Genius knows where the questions are hidden.

— Mason Cooley

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

— Mason Cooley

Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.

— Mason Cooley

Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.

— Mason Cooley

The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.

— Mason Cooley

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

— Mason Cooley

Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part.

— Mason Cooley

New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.

— Mason Cooley

The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

— Mason Cooley

I was used to yearning for you. After you returned my love, I felt unsettled and vaguely aggrieved.

— Mason Cooley

Think of the many different relations of form and content. E.g., the many pairs of trousers and what's in them.

— Mason Cooley

Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.

— Mason Cooley

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

— Mason Cooley

Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved.

— Mason Cooley

Money gives me more energy than all the Granola bars in the world.

— Mason Cooley

Belief forages, moving from pasture to pasture.

— Mason Cooley

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

— Mason Cooley

My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.

— Mason Cooley

The same old thing--even if it's champagne--is still the same old thing.

— Mason Cooley

Paradox implies that stating acontradiction disposes of it.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Perversity depends on reversal and substitution.

— Mason Cooley

Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

I love money, but will money ever love me in return?

— Mason Cooley

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

— Mason Cooley

If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.

— Mason Cooley

Every life has a love story, even though the beloved may be imaginary, or a cat.

— Mason Cooley

The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.

— Mason Cooley

An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.

— Mason Cooley

Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.

— Mason Cooley

Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.

— Mason Cooley

Sometimes the only way to become grounded is to hit bottom.

— Mason Cooley

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

— Mason Cooley

Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing.

— Mason Cooley

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

— Mason Cooley

To avoid doing anything, wait for the right circumstances.

— Mason Cooley

Saying I feel guilty is a mere form of words. Saying I feel ashamed is not.

— Mason Cooley