Eccentric

 It’s the eccentric human beings that remind us—if we listen—that we are at root absurd creatures. We are driven by molecules, hormones, chance, failure, nature, the seven deadly sins and our own urges and yearnings, a brew we really don’t understand. Yet we believe that all the laws, rules and conventions we make are signs of our instinctive rationality. Of course, we need structure and order to live together; but we can’t lose the humanity of the clown, the buffoon, the oddball and the rebel.