Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
By Mason Cooley
Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.
By Mason Cooley
Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
By Mason Cooley
Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.
By Mason Cooley
Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
By Mason Cooley
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
By Mason Cooley
Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
By Mason Cooley
Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
By Mason Cooley
Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
By Mason Cooley
Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
By Mason Cooley
It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
By Mason Cooley
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
By Mason Cooley
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
By Mason Cooley
Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.
By Mason Cooley
In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.
By Mason Cooley
In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
By Mason Cooley
In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.
By Mason Cooley
In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
By Mason Cooley
In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.
By Mason Cooley
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
By Mason Cooley
If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.
By Mason Cooley
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
By Mason Cooley
If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.
By Mason Cooley
If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.
By Mason Cooley
If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
By Mason Cooley
If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.
By Mason Cooley
If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
By Mason Cooley
