Mason Cooley Quotes
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Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
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I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.
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A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
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Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
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Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
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The body has a mind of its own.
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To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
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Young men preen. Old men scheme.
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Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.
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Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
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Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.
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Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
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Many gloat over their own troubles.
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Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
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Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
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Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
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Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
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Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
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Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.