Nick Gilbert

“you shouldn't try to save a drowning woman unless you were ready to drown yourself”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

“Women and the love myth keep men in adolescence all their lives.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slice of Life

“Scientific truth was not dogma, good for eternity, but a temporal quantitative entity that could be studied like anything else”
― Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

“Keep pressing home on him the ordinariness of things. Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defense against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can't touch and see.
There have been sad cases among the modern physicists. If he must dabble in science, keep him on economics and sociology; don't let him get away from that invaluable "real life." But the best of all is to let him read no science but to give him a grand general idea that he knows it all and that everything he happens to have picked up in casual talk and reading is 'the results of modern investigation'.”
― C. S. Lewis