“Cut it out, brain. Behave”

“If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?”

“We do not behave out of our identity, we behave out of our understanding of our identity in Christ.”

“The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.”

“This is the main advantage of ether: it makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel... total loss of all basic motor skills: Blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue - severance of all connection between the body and the brain. Which is interesting, because the brain continues to function more or less normally... you can actually watch yourself behaving in the terrible way, but you can't control it.”

“Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.”