Mason Cooley

A free spirit must be able to surmount anxiety time after time.

— Mason Cooley

Originality is in the eye of the beholder.

— Mason Cooley

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

— Mason Cooley

If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.

— Mason Cooley

silence is the most intolerable of answers.

— Mason Cooley

Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.

— Mason Cooley

No one could be the way I remember my father

— Mason Cooley

Don Juan tries not to see the skeptical winks that greet his boasting.

— Mason Cooley

Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice.

— Mason Cooley

The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.

— Mason Cooley

People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.

— Mason Cooley

The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.

— Mason Cooley

The nonsense that charms is close to sense.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.

— Mason Cooley

“Reading gives us a place to go when we have no where to go”

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

— Mason Cooley

Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.

— Mason Cooley

Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.

— Mason Cooley

The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.

— Mason Cooley

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

— Mason Cooley

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

— Mason Cooley

Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.

— Mason Cooley

Death is just around the corner. If only it would stay there.

— Mason Cooley

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

— Mason Cooley

When you feel protective toward your parents, you have become an adult.

— Mason Cooley

Unlike life, when books become meaningless, they are making a point.

— Mason Cooley

A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.

— Mason Cooley

Young girls giggle with nervous delight at the erections they inspire.

— Mason Cooley

Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.

— Mason Cooley

Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.

— Mason Cooley

Full of troubles, the mind is still the only Garden of Delight.

— Mason Cooley

If there is no harm in asking, why guilt and fear when we do so?

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.

— Mason Cooley

Many attempt to harvest what was never planted.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

— Mason Cooley

The man in the street is always a stranger.

— Mason Cooley