Quotes from Mason Cooley

In love as in art, good technique helps.

When my beloved arrives, I yawn. When my beloved departs, I weep.

The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.

Love Songs Now: Fewer broken hearts, more sexual misery.

I can neither return your love nor dismiss it.

Lovers always believe one another's sleight-of-hand tricks.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.

The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.

The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.

Many gloat over their own troubles.

Victimization has its privileges, and I want some.

General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.

At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy.

You are so tactful that I have no idea what you want.

The sentimental want to be thrilled by everything.

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.