Lisa Mason Quotes

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

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

When you finally cash it in Out in Frisco;
And you end this life of sin Out in Frisco;
They will gently toll a bell,
Plant your carcass in a dell,
There’s no need to go to hell, You’re in Frisco.

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

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

The future survives because people care. Live responsibly or die.

You are either the man in the white coat or you are the monkey. Susan sees herself as the monkey.

That’s what failure did to: run you out, plucked your bones, sucked you dry. It was revolting. A failed man is a loathsome thing.

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.”