Talk:Mason Cooley

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• When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap.
• Trust, but look for the exits.
• Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.
• Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
• Travelers never think that THEY are the foreigners.
• In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.
• Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.
• Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.
• Self-pity makes people callous.
• A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.
• Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.
• Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.
• Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.
• The sacred is found boring by many who find the uncanny fascinating.
• Studying the past may suggest new ways of going wrong.
• Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
• Many try to force the past to change.
• Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.
• Listening to people keeps them entertained.
• If you are going to be rude, be quick about it.
• Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.
• An insult angers me. Being ignored crushes me.
• For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
• Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.
• A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.
• I regret. I apologize. I blame myself. I continue as before.
• "Why not?" is a slogan for an interesting life.
• Beautiful people are forgiven more often than the rest.
• The madness of love can always be suspended—to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.
• Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones.
• Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.