Quotes from Mason Cooley

Money: power at its most liquid.

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

The only peace is being out of earshot.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

The real secrets are not the ones I tell.

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

Forget what hurt you but never forget what it thaught you.

Rereading, we find a new book

Faith moves mountains but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.

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

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.

Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.

Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

Everyday begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Reading gives us a place to go when we have no where to go