As a people, we have become obsessed with

As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.
- Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979

"With the perverse logic of a degenerate gambler he figured God was testing his faith." - Mario Puzo, Inside Las Vegas