Mason Cooley Thoughtful Quotations

No matter how close thought sticks to the actual, it follows its own rules.

Life is always rich, thought only occasionally so.

Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it.

Thought enables us to see Fate coming.

Every few years something new breaks into the circle of my thoughts.

To make a thought my own, I must think it often.

A small boy puts his hand on the wall, and looks down intently as he wriggles his toes. The birth of thought?

I feel that I have something significant to say, but I cannot think what it is.

By the time I have clarified a thought, I no longer want to think it.

Thoughts can be revised. Deeds cannot.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.