1,425 Quotes by Mason Cooley

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.

What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?

If I want my time wasted, I'll waste it myself.

Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

I would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit.

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.