Mason Cooley

At retirement, switching from “I must” to “I want” leaves me puzzled and uneasy.

Mason Cooley

At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy. City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection, New York (1993).

Mason Cooley

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Mason Cooley

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Mason Cooley

In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.

Mason Cooley

Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.

Mason Cooley

Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.

Mason Cooley

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth.

Mason Cooley

"Revenge," I shrieked, groping to remember the affront. City Aphorisms, New York (1984)

Mason Cooley

Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.

Mason Cooley