Quotes from Mason Cooley

Reading gives us somewhere to go when we have to stay where we are.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

After desolation, grief brings back our humanity

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we must stay where we are.

I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

Treat unhappiness as a defect and fewer would embrace it

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

We may eat dinner together, but everyone puts the food in his own mouth.

The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.