Pornography does not inspire violence, but you can break a leg trying to imitate it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do. — 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
