Quotes from Mason Cooley

My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.

As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success.

To succeed, find the right rut and stay with it.

If the current is right, one can drift to success.

I would enjoy experiencing the hollowness of success at first- hand.

I would be glad to worship success if I could find her.

Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.

The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.

Failures are easier to repeat than successes.

Vicarious living is only slightly less impossible than vicarious eating.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.

Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.

In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.

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

Folly always knows the answer.

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.

A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.

In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.

Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.

The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.

Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame.

Life is struggle and sleep.