1,425 Quotes by Mason Cooley

Attaining even mediocrity is often a struggle.

Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation.

New York loves itself in an unkind and fanatical way.

Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.

Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire.

More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.

Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard.