Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
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 Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
