Quotes from Mason Cooley

Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.

Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting.

People may show jealousy, but hide their envy.

Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.

My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks.

The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less.

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.

Carnal knowledge is as forgettable as the other kinds.

The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.

With every physical pain my moral fibre unravels a little.

Learned researches lead to headaches, constipation, and befuddled quarreling.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.

When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.

Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.

A quick smile is more seductive than a slinky dress.