Mason Cooley Quotes
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Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
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Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
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Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
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General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
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Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.
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Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
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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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If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
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People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
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Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.
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Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
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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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Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
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I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.
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A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
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At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
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The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
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An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
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For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
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If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
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Cure for an obsession: get another one.
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In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.
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Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.
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My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.