Mason Cooley Quotes

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

Never try to leap from a standstill.

Machismo makes no provision for preparing lunch, doing the laundry, or minding the baby.

Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.

Glamour looks eloquent but seldom talks.

A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.

Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening.

Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are.

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.

Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion.

Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

Victimization has its privileges, and I want some.

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

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.

The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

At the end of every diet, the path curves back to the trough.

Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer.

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

Secrets die when kept or revealed. They live by being faintly and uncertainly repeated.

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.

Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism.

If you are going to be rude, be quick about it.

When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap.

Money gives me more energy than all the Granola bars in the world.

Fortuna likes to find a crowd and follow it.

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

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

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

Rereading, we find a new book.

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.

Winning means outlasting everyone else.