Lapsen Conference Quotes

#1. It just showed once again that half the world doesn't know how the other three quarters live.

P.G. Wodehouse

#2. Does power bring happiness? Does it bring refinement? Does it bring humor? Does it bring a good-heartedness, or is it just cold? Power is never cold. Cold people may use power in cold ways.

Frederick Lenz

#3. What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able to accept that as worthy of that kind of attention. The psychedelic subset of society is into an experience, and it's accessible.

Terence McKenna

#4. They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

Janet Frame

#5. I knew,' it gasped, sensing my shift in thoughts. 'The tracking...I knew of it.'
'Then why come at all?'
'You...were kind. You...fought your fear. You were...kind.'
I began crying.

Sarah J. Maas

#6. I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.

Edgar Mitchell

#7. Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

Jonathan Swift

#8. There is no final destination to our journey.

Raphael Zernoff