Mason Cooley

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

"The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head."

"The time I kill is killing me."

"The wisdom of age: don't stop walking."

"As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance."

"Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty."

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

"Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed."

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

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

"In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners."

"Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame."

"Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation."

"Money: power at its most liquid."

"Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content."

"Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm."

"Romantics consider common sense vulgar."

"The lonely become either thoughtful or empty."

"Travelers never think that they are the foreigners."

"Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind."