1,425 Quotes by Mason Cooley

The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.

For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado.

As a dream comes true, it falls flat.

Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not.

My nostalgia is for the impossible.

Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.

Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.

Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.

In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.