I have a special grudge against those who have the same faults as I do. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences. — Mason Cooley Art Copy Share Image
My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts. — Mason Cooley Age Copy Share Image
As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement. — Mason Cooley Cities Copy Share Image
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth — Mason Cooley Hedonism Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Originality finds the unexpected but inevitable next step. — Mason Cooley Creativity Copy Share Image
The writer is always courted by invitations from the all-too- familiar. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
As a child I was told by my parents that I was happy, but I did not believe them. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Imagination awakens ambition, then causes it to lose its way. — Mason Cooley Ambition Copy Share Image
Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either. — Mason Cooley Business Copy Share Image
Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another. — Mason Cooley Affection Copy Share Image
Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth. — Mason Cooley Issues Copy Share Image
