1,425 Quotes by Mason Cooley

Energy falls just short of being joy.

Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.

Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.

Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.

Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.

Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.

Death is always there, just beneath the surface.

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.