Mason Cooley

Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.

— Mason Cooley

Treat unhappiness as a defect and fewer would embrace it.

— Mason Cooley

Fame now wears the halo that once crowned holiness.

— Mason Cooley

Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.

— Mason Cooley

Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.

— Mason Cooley

With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.

— Mason Cooley

In a strange city, I connect through food and fantasy.

— Mason Cooley

Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away.

— Mason Cooley

New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.

— Mason Cooley

I was used to yearning for you. After you returned my love, I felt unsettled and vaguely aggrieved.

— Mason Cooley

The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

— Mason Cooley

Think of the many different relations of form and content. E.g., the many pairs of trousers and what's in them.

— Mason Cooley

My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks.

— Mason Cooley

The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.

— Mason Cooley

People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.

— Mason Cooley

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

— Mason Cooley

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

— Mason Cooley

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.

— Mason Cooley

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

— Mason Cooley

Everyone makes sexy sounds; relatively few, sexy sights.

— Mason Cooley

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

— Mason Cooley

Life is always rich, thought only occasionally so.

— Mason Cooley

No one can remember himself as an unpleasant child.

— Mason Cooley

Warning: fortune cookies don't care what happens to you.

— Mason Cooley

The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.

— Mason Cooley

The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.

— Mason Cooley

The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

— Mason Cooley

I can imagine many things, but few clearly.

— Mason Cooley

The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.

— Mason Cooley

I deplore my shortcomings, but plan to keep them.

— Mason Cooley

Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.

— Mason Cooley

The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.

— Mason Cooley

Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.

— Mason Cooley

Alcohol postpones anxiety, then multiplies it.

— Mason Cooley

As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.

— Mason Cooley

Bad faith makes the most of every ambiguity.

— Mason Cooley

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

— Mason Cooley

I gulp down my pleasures, chew over my miseries.

— Mason Cooley