I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Rage against the world, if you like, but quietly, or the Guardians will awake. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions. — 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