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
When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting. — Mason Cooley Difficult Copy Share Image
Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness. — Mason Cooley Forgetfulness 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
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
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
Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes. — Mason Cooley Comfort Copy Share Image
Lovers never want to say "I love you" at the same moment. Hence all the love stories. — Mason Cooley Love Copy Share Image
Pleasing illusion: if my childhood had been the Paradise it should have been, all would now be well. — Mason Cooley Childhood Copy Share Image
