Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
Mason Cooley

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
Mason Cooley

Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.
Mason Cooley

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.
Mason Cooley

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
Mason Cooley

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
Mason Cooley

Rereading, we find a new book.
Mason Cooley

Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
Mason Cooley

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
Mason Cooley

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
Mason Cooley

Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
Mason Cooley

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.
Mason Cooley

Self-reform is the only kind that works.
Mason Cooley

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.
Mason Cooley

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.
Mason Cooley

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
Mason Cooley

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
Mason Cooley

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.
Mason Cooley

Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
Mason Cooley

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
Mason Cooley