Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

— Mason Cooley

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

— Mason Cooley

Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.

— Mason Cooley

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

— Mason Cooley

Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others but only widen it.

— Mason Cooley

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

— Mason Cooley

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

— Mason Cooley

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

— Mason Cooley