Lovers never want to say "I love you" at the same moment. Hence all the love stories. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
A moment of eloquence enthralls us. An hour's worth leaves us stupefied. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return. — 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
