Quotes from Mason Cooley

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

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

When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.

While there's life, there's fear.

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.