1,425 Quotes by Mason Cooley

The lover as baby is a less troubling idea than the baby as lover.

The soul is no longer honored as it once was, but it still keeps appetite from being the measure of all things.

Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Prudence does not save us, but shows us pictures of our destroyers.

The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.

As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.

Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism.

Disillusionment is not truth.