In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble. — 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
