Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
At the dinner table, if you can't think of anything to say, sit quietly. Don't throw rolls, or chew on your napkin. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The same old thing--even if it's champagne--is still the same old thing. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you… — 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
