Rereading, we find a new book
~ Mason Cooley
Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?
Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.
Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
Faith moves mountains but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Dogs often remind us of the human ail-too human. Cats never.
An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.
Why not is a slogan for an interesting life.
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.
Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.
With every physical pain my moral fibre unravels a little.
The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
Cure for an obsession: get another one.
Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.
Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
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.
To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
Money: power at its most liquid.
