Quotes from Mason Cooley

Life is what it makes you.

Life is the risk we cannot refuse.

I really like life, don't you? There's nothing else quite like it.

Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.

Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.

In art, a dress is never just a dress; nor in life either.

Which is the supplement? Fantasy or daily routine?

My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.

The suburbs: signs of life, but no proofs.

Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.

Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.

Commitments, not feelings, hold life together.

Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.

Old age likes indecency. It's a sign of life.

The Simple Life is not a simple life.

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

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

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

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

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

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