Thinking About You Quotes (page 43)
So this Zealot comes to my door, all glazed eyes and clean reproductive organs, asking me if I ever think about God. So I tell him I killed God. I tracked God down like a rabid dog, hacked off his legs with a hedge trimmer, raped him with a corncob, and boiled off his corpse in an acid bath. So he pulls an alternating-current taser on me and tells me that only the Official Serbian Church of Tesla can save my polyphase intrinsic electric field, known to non-engineers as "the soul." So I hit...
Warren Ellis
I used to get a big kick out of saving people's lives. Now I wonder what the hell's the point, since they all have to die anyway.'
Oh, there's a point, all right,' Dunbar assured him.
Is there? What is the point?'
The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can.'
Yeah, but what's the point, since they all have to die anyway?'
The trick is not to think about that.
Joseph Heller
I find this to be true of my spiritual life, and maybe it applies to yours as well: I think about things more than I do them; I ponder what seems their goodness more than I perform them. As if my thought alone were enough. But a thought alone isn’t quite enough; it’s an impulse and not a commitment, a passing thing that doesn’t take root unless you plant it and make it grow.
Peggy Noonan