About Mason Cooley: Mason Cooley is killing me."
Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.
Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.
Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.
Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
A blocked path also offers guidance.
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.
Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.
Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.
I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think.
The real secrets are not the ones I tell.
It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.
Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.
Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
The man in the street is always a stranger.
The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
