The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong. Mason Cooley More Quotes by Mason Cooley More Quotes From Mason Cooley I am only interested in money because everyone else is. Mason Cooley money A budget takes the fun out of money. Mason Cooley budgets money fun Pornography and cooking shows have created two new spectator sports. Mason Cooley cooking sports two Few things are worth doing perfectly. Mason Cooley perfection The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us. Mason Cooley always-waiting waiting past The past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues. Mason Cooley issues people past To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you. Mason Cooley tripping wind past The present necessarily betrays the past. Mason Cooley betray past The poor live slow and hard; the rich, fast and easy. The rest of us shuffle along as we may. Mason Cooley rich easy may Fame is fickle, but Obscurity is usually faithful to the end. Mason Cooley fickle faithful obscurity The world needs an enema. Mason Cooley world needs Most of us live in a world that has ceased to exist. Mason Cooley world In describing someone's character, I reveal my own. Mason Cooley describing my-own character A crisis unmasks everyone. Mason Cooley crisis character Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged. Mason Cooley parent natural children Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers. Mason Cooley terror ignorance children Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents. Mason Cooley doctrine parent children Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless. Mason Cooley innocence power children Necessity makes heroes of us all. Mason Cooley hero Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time. Mason Cooley mediocrity ambition time