Thoughts transfered to tasty words

'Tis a treat when someone puts mutual thoughts so eloquently into entertaining phrases, ideas which I sometimes struggle to communicate entirely. Ofcourse the person who does this best is Tom Robbins ... so here it goes ...

You disrupted the predictable pattern of my life, and although uncertainties and changes can be quite uncomfortable, a life is only a paper puppet show without them.

Sex without love could have its thrills and satisfactions, sex without soul is like salad without dressing - a bowl of roughage fit for cattle and goats.

The great value of a circus high-wire act is that it has not practical value. The fact that so much skill and effort and courage can be directed into something so ostensibly useless is what makes it useful. That's what affords it the power to lift us out of context and carry us - elsewhere.

There are reckless people who can - and will - die from the cars your father sells every day. Anything can be misused. Furthermore, every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation.