Automatic Woman Quotes

“The burden of genius is not the labor of our endeavors but in sharing the world with fools who don't know they are fools. Mark my words, the pseudointellectual will be the death of us all.”
― Nathan Yocum, Automatic Woman

“Good people will outlast the rule of the Church. No rule of law lasts for long, and there is nothing that can wholly destroy the good and evil that lives in man. It's ours to own for the duration of time and whatever exists beyond.”
― Nathan Yocum, The Zona

“There is some unwritten code or law that all women or means must be into Hinduism or Mysticism or psychics by the time they reach fifty years of age. The male equivalent is ornate guns. All aging women find psychics, all aging males find gun cabinets and expensive brandy. There's your truth.”
― Nathan Yocum, Automatic Woman

“What brings you to our gorgeous, God-given paradise, our Eden of monsters and half-men?”
― Nathan Yocum, The Zona

“Why did God make creatures as complex as women for creatures as simple as men?”
― Nathan Yocum, Automatic Woman

“Fortune smiles at a man on occasion, but misfortune rains down from on high with fury and volume. My dad used to say that.”
― Nathan Yocum, Automatic Woman

“The man couldn't find his own arsehole with a map, a donkey, and two Sherpas.”
― Nathan Yocum, Automatic Woman

“What the Piece Work [brothel] lacked in respectability, it made up for in discretion. I'd met the doorman and clerk on half a dozen occasions, but never exchanged names. The sign-in ledger read like a SmithJones family reunion. Ever the contrarian, I signed myself in as "Hugh Jarse"...”
― Nathan Yocum, Automatic Woman

“When the big picture gets too big, boy, when you feel like you have too many tasks at hand, focus on the minutiae of the moment. The one little task that needs to get done right now. Finish, go to the next, then the next, then the next. The big picture is an illusion, like the ocean. You don’t ever have to consider the ocean, just the shite you’re swimming in right”
― Nathan Yocum, Automatic Woman