Joseph Cowley is the author of the novels The Chrysanthemum Garden, Home by Seven, Landscape With Figures, Dust Be My Destiny, The House on Huntington Hill; the plays The Stargazers, Twin Bill, and A Jury of His Peers; two collection of shorter fiction, one called The Night Billy Was Born and Other Love Stories, the other Do You Like It and Other Stories; and, with Robert Weisselberg, The Executive Strategist, An Armchair Guide to Scientific Decision-Making. He has also collected some of his favorite writings in "The Best of Joseph Cowley."
Goals are important in life, but not the achievement of them, the pursuit of them. When one goal is achieved, or dismissed, another must be selected to give our life direction and meaning.
To me, the most important things in my life, the most vividly remembered, are the love affairs. They are never forgotten.
A good mind, like a good body, gives great pleasure when used arduously.