My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I seldom remember my father, but I sneeze and rub my nose the way he did. I also love my son with… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The family is on its way out; couples go next; then no more keeping cats or parrots. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go. — 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
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