Mason Cooley

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.

With every physical pain my moral fibre unravels a little.

Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.

Magic lives in curves not angles.

Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.

At the end of every diet the path curves back toward the trough.

"Why not" is a slogan for an interesting life.

Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others but only widen it.

An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.

Dogs often remind us of the human ail-too human. Cats never.

Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.

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

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

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