In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
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
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
