Mason Cooley Quotes
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The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
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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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Folly always knows the answer.
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Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
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Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.
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We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
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Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.
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Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
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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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Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.
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The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.
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Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
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Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
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If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
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An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
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General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
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Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.
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Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
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Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.
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For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.