Mason Cooley Quotes

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

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

Treat unhappiness as a defect and fewer would embrace it

True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.

Don't sacrifice yourself for me. I will not be grateful.

Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.

in the city, nudity means something; in the wild, it just exists

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

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it

Flattery and insults raise the same question: what do you want?

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Rereading, we find a new book

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