straight............................?

 What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

-Tennessee Williams, as channeled by David Kanigan

never be thwarted.......................

34.   Press on steadily, keep to the straight road in your thinking and doing, and your days will ever flow on smoothly.  The soul of man, like the souls of all rational creatures, has two things in common with the soul of God:  it can never be thwarted from without, and its good consists in the righteousness of character and action, and in confining every wish thereto.

-Marcus Aurelius,  Meditations, from Book Five

Re: Straight lines...............................

"Everything you learned in school as 'obvious' becomes less and less obvious as you being to study the universe.  For example, there are no solids in the universe.  There's not even a suggestion of a solid.  There are no absolute continuums.  There are no surfaces.  There are no straight lines."
-R. Buckminster Fuller

It just might work.........................

"When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line."

-Samuel Beckett,  Molloy

thanks michael