Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The poor live slow and hard; the rich, fast and easy. The rest of us shuffle along as we may. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear. — 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
