Mason Cooley

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

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

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

The time I kill is killing me.

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.