[covingtoncat73]

"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

— Douglas Adams

And a couple from my current read, Galore, by Michael Crummey:

”Father Phelan claimed she was the only person in the new world he lived in fear of, which she dismissed as base flattery. 'You’d be a half-decent priest if you gave up the drinking and whoring, she told him.' 'Half-decent,' he said, 'wouldn’t be worth the sacrifice.'”

“They came finally to the consensus that life was a mystery and a wonder beyond human understanding, a conclusion they were comfortable with though there was little comfort in the thought.”