The Epiphany Machine Quotes

“Thinking, like other drugs, can be a useful distraction from pain, as long as it's managed and doesn't become an addiction.”
― David Burr Gerrard, The Epiphany Machine

“I'm saying that figuring out what's important in life and how to go about getting it is very difficult. Sometimes you get confused and you get tempted to just let other people make the rules. And some people are really happy to make the rules for other people. Adam Lyons, the man who runs the epiphany machine, is one of those people.”
― David Burr Gerrard, The Epiphany Machine

“Maybe Julie, I mean my new Julie, my Jewish Julie, I mean my wife, isn't quite as right for me as the other Julie was. She doesn't challenge me as much, we don't laugh as much, and our sex isn't as good. But this Julie challenges me almost as much, we laugh almost as much, and our sex is...fine. Julie and I might have been a little happier than Julie and I, but Julie and I are still happy.”
― David Burr Gerrard, The Epiphany Machine

“The things white men failed to notice would fill the world they had ruined ten thousand times over.”
― David Burr Gerrard, The Epiphany Machine

“The epiphany machine will not discover anything about you that you do not, in some way, already know. But think for a moment about surprise. What is surprising is never what is revealed but the grace with which it has been hidden.”
― David Burr Gerrard, The Epiphany Machine

“You already know what the machine will write on your arm. That lie you’ve been telling yourself—you know what it is. That blind spot is not really a blind spot—you’re choosing to look away. Perhaps more to the point, you already know whether you want to see it. You already know whether you’re going to use the machine. So why are you still reading this?”
― David Burr Gerrard, The Epiphany Machine

“One way to think about your life is as an extended free fall. An epiphany may help you see better as you fall. Rather than a meaningless blur, you will see rocks and trees and lizards. An epiphany is not a parachute.”
― David Burr Gerrard, The Epiphany Machine

“He wanted to be king and was the last to learn that to be a king was a thing of nothing”
― David Burr Gerrard, The Epiphany Machine

“You've already given God your foreskin, you don't owe him the rest of your dick.”
― David Burr Gerrard, The Epiphany Machine

“She pulled down my pants and boxers in one unbroken movement, an act that felt as abrupt and strange as this entire afternoon, but as soon as she put my penis in her mouth, I was very glad that I had accompanied her home.”
― David Burr Gerrard, The Epiphany Machine