Zitat des Tages von Mason Cooley:
Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.
Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
The passion for money is never fickle.
An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
Cure for an obsession: get another one.
To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.
A blunt statement can be as false as any other.
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
Many gloat over their own troubles.
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.
The beloved is the ultimate fetish.
If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.
Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.
Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.
If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.
Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.
Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.
If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.