Mason Cooley

“Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.”

“Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.”

“Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?”

“Rereading, we find a new book.”

“Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.”

“Cure for an obsession: get another one.”

“Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.”

“Young men preen. Old men scheme.”

“General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.”

“An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.”

“Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.”

“Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.”

“People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.”

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

“Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.”

“Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.”

“I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.”

“The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.”

“First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.”

“Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.”