Quotes from Mason Cooley

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.

Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer.

When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap.

Being charming takes time and effort, and I am busy.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

A free spirit must be able to surmount anxiety time after time.

If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

Self-reform is the only kind that works.

The time I kill is killing me.

Age: I go slower as time goes faster.

A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.

If I want my time wasted, I'll waste it myself.

The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.

Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.

Every good time that goes on too long turns into a hell.

Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.

Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.