Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
