From Another Roadside Attraction By Tom Robbins

The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps
the scientist human.

“There are three mental states that interest me”,
said Amanda, turning to the lizard doorknob. They are: one, amnesia; two
euphoria; three ecstasy.”

She reached into the cabinet and removed a small green bottle
of water-lily pollen. “Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting
desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring.
Ecstasy is knowing exactly who one is - and still not caring.”

Real courage is risking something that you have to keep on
living with, real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink
your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness. Real courage is
risking one’s cliches.”

Logic only gives a man what he needs. Magic gives a man what he
wants.

Nature isn’t stable. Life isn’t stable. Stability is unnatural.
The only stable society is the police state. You can have a free society or a
stable society. You can’t have both. Take your choice.

It is content, or rather the consciousness of content, that
fills the void. But the mere presence of content is not enough. It is style that
gives content the capacity to absorb us, to move us; it is style that makes us
care.

Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the
truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.