Mason Cooley Quotations | Page 4

You gave me a significant look, but significant of what?

The desire to be significant casts a pall.

The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.

Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.

Diplomats lie with a heavy sense of destiny.

Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.

Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.

The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.

The narcissist enjoys being looked at and not looking back.

Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.