Mason Cooley Littles Quotations

The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy.

Scholarship can find little to say about the obvious.

As children, our protests availed little. As adults, the same.

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment.

To be sexy, nudes need a little underwear.

To remain mysterious, say little and do nothing.

Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.

Lead the reader toward the thought, then stop a little short.

My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks.

Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

With every physical pain, my moral fibre unravels a little.

The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

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

A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are.

The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.