Mason Cooley Quotes
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While there's life, there's fear.
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Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.
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Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
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Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.
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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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Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
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If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.
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The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
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Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
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Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
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After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
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In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.
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Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
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Hatred observes with more care than love does.
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The real secrets are not the ones I tell.
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Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.
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A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.
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Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
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Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.
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Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
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Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
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The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
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People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
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No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.