Mason Cooley

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.

— Mason Cooley

With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.

— Mason Cooley

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

— Mason Cooley

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

— Mason Cooley

Sensuality takes planning and work.

— Mason Cooley

Creativity is not a substitute for competence.

— Mason Cooley

Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back.

— Mason Cooley

A dirty mind is a rich inner resource.

— Mason Cooley

Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment.

— Mason Cooley

Shameless: Punish me for my desire if you will. It burns still.

— Mason Cooley

What I eat turns into my body. What I read turns into my mind.

— Mason Cooley

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

— Mason Cooley

Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point.

— Mason Cooley

Curiosity makes loneliness.

— Mason Cooley

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

— Mason Cooley

Memories contain hidden editorials on current events.

— Mason Cooley

My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks.

— Mason Cooley

A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.

— Mason Cooley

Every declaration of love contains an unstated list of exceptions and demands.

— Mason Cooley

We express disappointment in everything except ourselves.

— Mason Cooley

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

— Mason Cooley

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

— Mason Cooley

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

— Mason Cooley

Spontaneity comes after skill, not before.

— Mason Cooley

All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.

— Mason Cooley