Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The soul is no longer honored as it once was, but it still keeps appetite from being the measure of all things. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back. — 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
