Quotes from Lisa Crystal Carver

We try to get out of these cocoons and make our way down to where our bodies are. We try shoplifting and racist/sexist/ageist humor (trying to offend our way out); we get naked on stage. We try sleep deprivation and razors on our skin. We date creepy, scary sleazes who we half-hope, half-fear might do the cutting for us. But we're so used to living inside a dream, even cutting feels dreamy. We can't get out. We can't wake up.

But then I grew up, experienced some life, and I understood that when you merely switch from being a prisoner to being a guard, no one is freed, not even yourself.

Most businesses operate out of people's houses. They pass on the savings from low overhead and no oversight. The sign on a single-wide trailer says it's a Sleep Study Clinic. I imagine you go in there and lie down on the foldout couch and someone stares at you while you try to go to sleep, and it only costs you $20.

At 6 a.m., it's already 89º. Soon it'll be too hot for any gyrating of the larynx. Too hot to cry, too hot to fly. When all the world lies down at noon, you better get your partying in at dawn.

Met a strange, svelte, gray man at the grocery store. We bonded over our hatred of sugar in everything and how the government is a corporation driving up our for-profit healthcare costs on purpose selling us unhealthy drinks and processed food. We're paying for our own deaths!