Mason Cooley

Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.

— Mason Cooley

The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it.

— Mason Cooley

Your words and my words are the same, but not our meaning.

— Mason Cooley

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.

— Mason Cooley

Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.

— Mason Cooley

Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.

— Mason Cooley

My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

— Mason Cooley

To postpone unpleasantness is human; to forget it is divine.

— Mason Cooley

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

Talk shows are proof that conversation is dead.

— Mason Cooley

Couples who come to understand one another often part.

— Mason Cooley

The right time to die is never exactly now.

— Mason Cooley

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.

— Mason Cooley

Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

— Mason Cooley

Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.

— Mason Cooley

My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.

— Mason Cooley

If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.

— Mason Cooley

I feel that I have something significant to say, but I cannot think what it is.

— Mason Cooley

Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.

— Mason Cooley

Don't milk the cow too hard. She will kick you.

— Mason Cooley

Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers.

— Mason Cooley

Opportunity often goes begging. Luck, never.

— Mason Cooley

A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.

— Mason Cooley