Mason Cooley Quotes
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The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
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After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
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Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
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Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.
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The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
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Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.
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In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.
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Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
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A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.
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My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.
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Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
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Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.
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If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.
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No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.
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Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
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Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
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Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.
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Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
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Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
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The real secrets are not the ones I tell.