Quotes from Mason Cooley

Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

The right time to die is never exactly now.

I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.

Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time

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

If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.

Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

Flattery and insults raise the same question: what do you want?

Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

silence is the most intolerable of answers.

Sometimes I discover I have changed my mind because I have forgotten what I used to think.

Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.

True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.

Don't sacrifice yourself for me. I will not be grateful.

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.