Mason Cooley

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word…

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

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life…

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty…

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity…

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to…

The passion for money is never fickle…

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm…

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness…

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love…

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I…

In every death, a busy world comes to an end…

Even cats grow lonely and anxious…

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time…

While there’s life, there’s fear…