Lisa Mason Quotes

The technopolistic plutocracy will dump pollutants into the atmosphere for another century on the grounds that compliance with limits is too expensive.

Junk does that. Junk is a forge. You enter the fire and come out twisted.

My angel," he says, cradling her. "I'm not an angel, Daniel." "Yes, you are." "No! I'm not an angel and I'm not a whore. I have intelligence and passion, strength and perseverance. I am capable of abstract thought, intellectual accomplishment, and artistic expression just like you, sir." He ponders that as the brougham trots up Fifth Street to Market. "What shall I call you, then?" Zhu smiles. "You may call me a woman.

What is the value of a life when the world is burdened with twelve billion people?

Consider impact before you consider benefit.

Boredom," he says, "is the province of the unimaginative soul.

Since they were little, wishing on the first star of the evening, they both understood this: the most exciting game in life is to invent yourself.

In the beginning and the end, it’s all a crapshoot. The Cosmic Mind does play dice. Loves to gamble, in fact.

I didn’t lie. I implied.

He uncorks the absinthe, pours three rounds.…
“After the first glass you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. After the third, you see things as they really are, which is the most horrible thing in the world.”

What was that teacher trying to do?
That teacher was trying to break her spirit.
But why would school do that? So you could become someone like her parents and believe in the things they believe in. So you won’t believe in the things they don’t believe in. And believe you’re a happy person whose life has meaning. So you will go to your job and do whatever gross thing someone tells you to do and get drunk on Friday and Saturday nights and pay taxes and bills. That’s why.

What is destiny for any human being? What becomes of probabilities that collapse out of the timeline? Does destiny depend on who witnesses?

Acid," says the guy with the eyes, "raises your powers of integration so that everything is important." "Acid," says Chiron, "lowers your powers of discrimination so that everything seems important.

She’s got space. Lots of space in her house. What about in her heart?

Prostitution has little to do with morality, and everything to do with poverty.