Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs. — Mason Cooley Friendship Copy Share Image
Adrenalin dispels boredom. Run, you sufferers from ennui! Run for your lives! — Mason Cooley Boredom Copy Share Image
Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting. — Mason Cooley Collecting Copy Share Image
The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind. — Mason Cooley Body Copy Share Image
The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success. — Mason Cooley Attraction Copy Share Image
What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance. — Mason Cooley Appearance Copy Share Image
Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue. — Mason Cooley Frogs Copy Share Image
If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in. — Mason Cooley Constraints Copy Share Image
In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen. — Mason Cooley Bus Copy Share Image
My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I… — Mason Cooley Earnest Copy Share Image
Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time. — Mason Cooley Ambition Copy Share Image
Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey. — Mason Cooley Historian Copy Share Image
Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports. — Mason Cooley Curiosity Copy Share Image
Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over. — Mason Cooley Book Copy Share Image
In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back… — Mason Cooley Alleys Copy Share Image
To be a social success, do not act pathetic, arrogant, or bored. Do not discuss your unhappy childhood, your visit to the… — Mason Cooley Arrogant Copy Share Image
Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a… — Mason Cooley Black Copy Share Image
Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those… — Mason Cooley Argument Copy Share Image
