Quotes from Mason Cooley

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

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

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

The passion for money is never fickle.

The time I kill is killing me.

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

Art seduces, but does not exploit.