Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false? — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
For the purpose of knowledge, one must know how to use that inner current that draws us to a thing, and then… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
By the time I have clarified a thought, I no longer want to think it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming. — 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