About Mason Cooley: Mason Cooley is killing me."
In every death, a busy world comes to an end.
As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
While there's life, there's fear.
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
Cure for an obsession: get another one.
An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
