Mason Cooley Quotes
If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.
In every death, a busy world comes to an end.
In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.
In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.
In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
Listening to people keeps them entertained.
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
