Mason Cooley

Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

Rereading, we find a new book

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

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

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

Money: power at its most liquid.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

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

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.