Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other words in a phrase or sentence that can create magic. Perhaps literally.
Tom RobbinsOh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who canโt be happy until theyโve graduated, servicemen who canโt be happy until they are discharged, single folks who canโt be happy until theyโve found a mate, workers who canโt be happy until theyโve retired, adolescents who arenโt happy until theyโre grown, ill people who arenโt happy until theyโre well, failures who arenโt happy until they succeed, restless who canโt wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin.
Tom RobbinsI go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want to. I don't have to think this thing through and write about it at any great length. I can think about it if I want to; if not, I can just walk out. So I can enjoy painting really a lot more than I could when I had that sort of pressure.
Tom RobbinsWhite folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies.
Tom Robbins