A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.
By Mason Cooley
A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
By Mason Cooley
A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
By Mason Cooley
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
By Mason Cooley
A blunt statement can be as false as any other.
By Mason Cooley
'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'
By Mason Cooley
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
By Mason Cooley
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
By Mason Cooley
Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
By Mason Cooley
If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
By Mason Cooley
In every death, a busy world comes to an end.
By Mason Cooley
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
By Mason Cooley
Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.
By Mason Cooley
Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
By Mason Cooley
Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
By Mason Cooley
Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
By Mason Cooley
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
By Mason Cooley
Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
By Mason Cooley
The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
By Mason Cooley