If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
Mason Cooley

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

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

In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.
Mason Cooley

In every death, a busy world comes to an end.
Mason Cooley

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
Mason Cooley

In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.
Mason Cooley

In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.
Mason Cooley

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
Mason Cooley

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
Mason Cooley

Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.
Mason Cooley

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Mason Cooley

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
Mason Cooley

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
Mason Cooley

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
Mason Cooley

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
Mason Cooley

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
Mason Cooley

Listening to people keeps them entertained.
Mason Cooley

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
Mason Cooley

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
Mason Cooley