An illicit love affair seems sweetly old-fashioned in the age of one night stands and orgies. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here? — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Every declaration of love contains an unstated list of exceptions and demands. — 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
