1,425 Quotes by Mason Cooley

Fluency avoids hard thoughts.

Masks are what they seem to be; not so the faces beneath them.

I am invigorated by work, wasted by pleasure.

Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus.

Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves.

Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.

Passion cooks. Reason cleans.

The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.

The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.