"Why, in this universe ruled by force and blind chance, was everything not crashing relentlessly into everything else? How as it possible that healthy babies were ever born, that car trips were completed without accidents, that flights departed and landed every day without a crash? It was as though the theodicies that had preoccupied me for years suddenly inverted themselves. The riddle was not the problem of evil; it was the problem of good. Beauty and goodness and order—this was the truly shocking fact of existence. It was not that life was full of rocks and whirlpools; it was the sheer wonder that our vast universe that our vast universe had managed to produce anything but rocks." —Meghan O’Gieblyn, Will and Attention: A Memoir (New York: Doubleday, 2026)