Mason Cooley Pet Quotations

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

Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.

Ladies and gentlemen are supposed to be looked after by others, like children and pets.

My secrets are petty but humiliating.

The soul is no longer honored as it once was, but it still keeps appetite from being the measure of all things.

Fear regulates. Appetite impels.

Creativity is not a substitute for competence.

Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.

The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition.

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.