Subculture Vulture Quotes

“A man in the tradition of Lewis and Clark and the decimation of the Native Americans, of the transcontinental railroad and the expulsion of the Chinese who built it, of the Bill of Rights and the slave trade.”
― Moshe Kasher, Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes

“We are impermanent. We die. We immolate. All of us is a person about to catch fire. Before the flames come, we try to live a comfortable life. But with that comfort, it's easy to miss doing much of anything.”
― Moshe Kasher, Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes

“Though a priest was inspired to teach the deaf in order to bring them to the table of Christian salvation, they ended up building their own table. Because for them, salvation was never a helping hand, but a talking one.”
― Moshe Kasher, Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes

“Perhaps that's the cycle of things: Someone invents something new and fresh, and it keeps shedding its skin into something slightly different and slightly bigger until, eventually, the inventor cannot identify his creation and a new squad of tinkerers convinces themselves they are, in fact, the masters of the new creature until they also cannot tame the beast.”
― Moshe Kasher, Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes

“Most people approach systems of belief like a buffet where you take what you want and leave the rest. But, as I used to scream, heavy with judgment, from behind the podium in AA: The part you leave might have been the part that would have saved your life. So I took it all. Until I couldn't take it anymore.”
― Moshe Kasher, Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes

“The hell I know is better than the hell I imagine.”
― Moshe Kasher, Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes

“Once at the mechanic, you find out what the problem is. Busted transmission, engine failure, acute cirrhosis. That knowledge is VITAL. Without it you cannot move forward. But that knowledge doesn’t fix the car. It only makes the fixing of the car possible.”
― Moshe Kasher, Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes