Mason Cooley Quotes
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The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
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Folly always knows the answer.
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The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.
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Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
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The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
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Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
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An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
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Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
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The body has a mind of its own.
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Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.
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Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.
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Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
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Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.
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General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
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Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
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Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
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I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.
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While there's life, there's fear.
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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
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Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.