James Surprenant

“When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.”
― Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

“A crane can't buy a piece of ass

Or

hang itself at noon
in Monterey
Those are some of
the things

Humans can do
Besides
stand on one leg”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.”
― Jonathan Sacks

“He was an obstetrician; he delivered babies into the world. His colleagues called this 'the Lord's work.' And he was an abortionist; he delivered mothers, too. His colleagues called this 'the Devil's work,' but it was all the Lord's work to Wilbur Larch. As Mrs. Maxwell had observed: 'The true physician's soul cannot be too broad and gentle.”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules