Mason Cooley

I trust you because I need you.

— Mason Cooley

Only the most lucid can see their love as comedy.

— Mason Cooley

More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.

— Mason Cooley

In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.

— Mason Cooley

Self-congratulation pleases only the speaker.

— Mason Cooley

Many who take up burdens come to resent being put upon.

— Mason Cooley

Robert Frost: plain, strong, simple, and mean.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning.

— Mason Cooley

If your nose is up in the air, you cannot see where you are going.

— Mason Cooley

Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved

— Mason Cooley

In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.

— Mason Cooley

Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.

— Mason Cooley

Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.

— Mason Cooley

Do not wait for a reason to be happy.

— Mason Cooley

An event is not over until everyone is tired of talking about it.

— Mason Cooley

Many gloat over their own troubles.

— Mason Cooley

Technique bridges among ideas, and sometimes generates them.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.

— Mason Cooley

The past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

The winner gives up his chance to be a good sport.

— Mason Cooley

The question you're not supposed to ask is the important one.

— Mason Cooley

Life is the risk we cannot refuse.

— Mason Cooley