Mason Cooley

Sometimes "Yes" is rhetoric enough.

— Mason Cooley

The time I kill is killing me.

— Mason Cooley

We understand through resemblance.

— Mason Cooley

Complainers detest each other.

— Mason Cooley

Like love, grief fades in and out.

— Mason Cooley

Glamour looks eloquent but seldom talks.

— Mason Cooley

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

— Mason Cooley

To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.

— Mason Cooley

Hatred observes with more care than love does.

— Mason Cooley

The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.

— Mason Cooley

The desire to be significant casts a pall.

— Mason Cooley

The exhibitionist loves to flirt with shame

— Mason Cooley

Reading a great book causes jolts and frights.

— Mason Cooley

Fearful of sentimentality, I disown my tears and melting heart.

— Mason Cooley

Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.

— Mason Cooley

If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you…

— Mason Cooley

Never trust the judgment of an enthusiastic man; never trust the promises of a lazy one.

— Mason Cooley

My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

— Mason Cooley

Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

— Mason Cooley

All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.

— Mason Cooley

Pornography does not inspire violence, but you can break a leg trying to imitate it.

— Mason Cooley

I would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit.

— Mason Cooley

The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.

— Mason Cooley

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

— Mason Cooley

Now that I see you understand me so well, I will avoid you.

— Mason Cooley

To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person.

— Mason Cooley

Forget what hurt you but never forget what it thaught you.

— Mason Cooley

Many think that assigning blame settles matters.

— Mason Cooley

Failures are easier to repeat than successes.

— Mason Cooley

As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.

— Mason Cooley

Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.

— Mason Cooley

Anyone who feels like a fool has made a good beginning.

— Mason Cooley

Orgies are an early form of what will someday become sex by committee.

— Mason Cooley

Working cuts down on both folly and wisdom.

— Mason Cooley

I am plain-speaking out of both sides of my mouth.

— Mason Cooley

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

— Mason Cooley

With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.

— Mason Cooley

To be fulfilled, a prophecy needs lots of flexibility.

— Mason Cooley

At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.

— Mason Cooley

Sexual attraction keeps throwing self-interest off course.

— Mason Cooley