What do you want out of life, Francis Lostwax?" Francis smiled. "To never hurt anybody again." His lack of hesitation surprised him. "To feel clean. - James Morrow

What enormous potential for intermittent happiness the world offered.

Love Jesus, embrace your inner storm trooper, and leave the planet a more miserable place than you found it—that's Christian nihilism in a nutshell," said Whip Hemsoth. "If there's a better path to fulfilling your purpose and engorging your wedding member, I haven't found it.

In Francis’s view there was ultimate gold in this commitment to impractical knowledge, to theories that had no responsibilities other than to be true. On good days the new ideas inched human intellect toward the grand understandings that were science’s pride and joy.