Rick Patterson

“What's the difference between vision and a vision? The former relates to something it's assumed you've seen, the latter to something it's assumed you haven't. Language is not always dependable either.”
― Margaret Atwood, Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems

“Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami