Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.
By Mason Cooley
Money gives me more energy than all the Granola bars in the world.
By Mason Cooley
Lazarus was coolly received by his friends, who considered his case closed.
By Mason Cooley
Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.
By Mason Cooley
Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame.
By Mason Cooley
Lawyers may reason powerfully, but power settles most issues.
By Mason Cooley
If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.
By Mason Cooley
Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.
By Mason Cooley
I really like life, don't you? There's nothing else quite like it.
By Mason Cooley
I love money, but will money ever love me in return?
By Mason Cooley
I am only interested in money because everyone else is.
By Mason Cooley
He: 'Life is strange.' She: 'Compared to what?'
By Mason Cooley
Health can be squandered, but not stored up.
By Mason Cooley
Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return.
By Mason Cooley
Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.
By Mason Cooley
Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.
By Mason Cooley
Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.
By Mason Cooley
Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.
By Mason Cooley
Dancers dance through their pain. I shrink from mine.
By Mason Cooley
Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.
By Mason Cooley
Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.
By Mason Cooley
