I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

- Mason Cooley

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

- Mason Cooley

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

- Mason Cooley

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

- Mason Cooley

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

- Mason Cooley

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

- Mason Cooley

Money: power at its most liquid.

- Mason Cooley

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

- Mason Cooley

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

- Mason Cooley

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

- Mason Cooley