1,425 Quotes by Mason Cooley

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse.

Laughter and tears may not persuade, but they cannot be refuted.

In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.

Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea.

The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.

I am only interested in money because everyone else is.

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring.