1,425 Quotes by Mason Cooley

The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.

As a child I was told by my parents that I was happy, but I did not believe them.

Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.

A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction.

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.

The flesh of past lovers looks both familiar and strange.

It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided.