Status Updates From The Music of Chance

"sleep was a passage from one life into another, a small death in which the demons inside him had caught fire again, melting back into the flames they were born of".

"If there's no passion in your life, it's not worth living".

“I can’t do that, son, you know that. No calls allowed until you finish paying off the debt. At the rate you’re going, it won’t be long now. Then you can make all the calls you want. As far as I’m concerned, you can go on calling till kingdom come.”

Auster, Paul. The Music of Chance (p. 189). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

“I’m already out of here,” Pozzi said. “By the time you count to a hundred, you won’t even remember who I am.”

Then, without saying good-bye, he turned on his heels and started running down the road.

Auster, Paul. The Music of Chance (p. 170). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

As long as they kept on working, the work was going to make them free.

Auster, Paul. The Music of Chance (p. 147). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

“You’re starting to sound like Flower, Jack. The guy wins the lottery, and all of a sudden he thinks he was chosen by God.”

“I’m not talking about God. God has nothing to do with it.”

Auster, Paul. The Music of Chance (p. 139). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"For all the warmth and sentimentality depicted in the model, the overriding mood was one of terror, of dark dreams sauntering down the avenues in broad daylight."

Auster, Paul. The Music of Chance (p. 96). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"If you look at the Prison, you’ll see that all the prisoners are working happily at various tasks, that they all have smiles on their faces. That’s because they’re glad they’ve been punished for their crimes, and now they’re learning how to recover the goodness within them through hard work."

Auster, Paul. The Music of Chance (p. 80). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

“I thought that was your number.” “It is. But it’s your number, too. That’s one of the beauties of the Brotherhood. Everyone who joins gets the same number.”

Auster, Paul. The Music of Chance (p. 62). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

“You had to invent something. It’s not possible to leave it blank. The mind won’t let you.”

Auster, Paul. The Music of Chance (p. 45). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

“Lots of things are important. Just don’t disappear forever, that’s all.”

Auster, Paul. The Music of Chance (p. 16). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"As long as he did not turn back, he could just as well have been invisible."

Auster, Paul. The Music of Chance (p. 6). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.