Mason Cooley

Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.

— Mason Cooley

Magic lives in curves, not angles.

— Mason Cooley

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

— Mason Cooley

The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.

— Mason Cooley

Few things are worth doing perfectly.

— Mason Cooley

Rereading, we find a new book.

— Mason Cooley

If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone.

— Mason Cooley

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

— Mason Cooley

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

— Mason Cooley

Family romances are the only ones that never turn out happily.

— Mason Cooley

Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings.

— Mason Cooley

The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.

— Mason Cooley

The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.

— Mason Cooley

The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted.

— Mason Cooley

Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.

— Mason Cooley

Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.

— Mason Cooley

Rebuttals never alter desire.

— Mason Cooley

Lovers' quarrels are not generally about money. Divorce cases generally are.

— Mason Cooley

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

— Mason Cooley

Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

— Mason Cooley

Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.

— Mason Cooley

Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.

— Mason Cooley

A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.

— Mason Cooley

I am too impatient to wait for temptation to come to me.

— Mason Cooley

Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity.

— Mason Cooley