The Media: bold sex and violence, timid politics and morals. — Mason Cooley Character Copy Share Image
“Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are.” — Mason Cooley Place Copy Share Image
Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself. — Mason Cooley Betray Copy Share Image
Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return. — Mason Cooley Freedom 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 Comedian Copy Share Image
Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive. — Mason Cooley Alive Copy Share Image
Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy. — Mason Cooley Advertising Copy Share Image
The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy. — Mason Cooley Infancy Copy Share Image
To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point. — Mason Cooley Aphorism Copy Share Image
Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice. — Mason Cooley Advice Copy Share Image
To be a social success, do not act pathetic, arrogant, or bored. Do not discuss your unhappy childhood, your visit to the… — Mason Cooley Arrogant Copy Share Image
In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back… — Mason Cooley Alleys Copy Share Image
Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a… — Mason Cooley Black Copy Share Image
Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those… — Mason Cooley Argument Copy Share Image
