At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
