Somehow the body keeps life going despite the ravaging negations of the mind. — 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
Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I like what I do for a living. I also like NOT doing it--perhaps even more. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat. — 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
