1,425 Quotes by Mason Cooley

We often mistake the original part of ourselves for a weakness.

I am interested in a hundred things, but only slightly.

A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.

Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.

Young men preen. Old men scheme.

Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.

The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.

An imprudent enemy is less dangerous than an imprudent friend.

The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.