Mason Cooley quotes

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

The time I kill is killing me.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

Money: power at its most liquid.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

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

Money: power at its most liquid.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.