As children, our protests availed little. As adults, the same. — Mason Cooley Adults Copy Share Image
Dreams are distorted representations of desire. So are dream- analyses. — Mason Cooley Analysis Copy Share Image
An event is not over until everyone is tired of talking about it. — Mason Cooley Event Copy Share Image
Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other. — Mason Cooley Back roads Copy Share Image
Once I find the right maxim to apply, I feel that I have done all that can be expected of me. — Mason Cooley Apply Copy Share Image
King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us. — Mason Cooley Count dracula Copy Share Image
Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own. — Mason Cooley Emotion Copy Share Image
After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth. — Mason Cooley May 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
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