Mason Cooley

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

— Mason Cooley

In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back…

— Mason Cooley

Progress may feel more like loss than gain.

— Mason Cooley

Regret leads to overeating and naps.

— Mason Cooley

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

— Mason Cooley

Sometimes the given seems like something taken away.

— Mason Cooley

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

— Mason Cooley

Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.

— Mason Cooley

The familiar changes as we cling to it.

— Mason Cooley

I regret. I apologize. I blame myself. I continue as before.

— Mason Cooley

Everyone fears and courts his own demon.

— Mason Cooley

Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.

— Mason Cooley

The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.

— Mason Cooley

Only those in comfortable circumstances think love is the most important thing.

— Mason Cooley

Even boredom has its crises.

— Mason Cooley

All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.

— Mason Cooley

Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.

— Mason Cooley

By the time I have clarified a thought, I no longer want to think it.

— Mason Cooley

Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.

— Mason Cooley

I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.

— Mason Cooley

Sex is not imaginary, but it is not quite real either.

— Mason Cooley

Clouds of flavors and savors float around the thing-in-itself.

— Mason Cooley

Winning means outlasting everyone else.

— Mason Cooley

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

— Mason Cooley

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

— Mason Cooley