A friend recently told me he was reading Tom Robbins and it sent me looking for some quotes of his that I love.

All a person can do in this life is gather about him his integrity, his imagination, and his individuality – and with these ever with him, out front and in sharp focus, leap into the dance of experience.

Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end. Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of the bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm. There is only one serious question. And that is: who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself. Answer me that and I will ease your mind about the beginning and the end of time. Answer me that and I will reveal to you the purpose of the moon.

– both from Still Life With Woodpecker

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who’re part of the solution and those who’re part of the problem.

“I’m not sure if I can walk,” she said. “Then I’ll carry you.” “Is that what love is?”

… a bare museum dedicated to what each of us wants and cannot have and to the sadness and joy of that wanting.

My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.

“You’re better equipped for this world than I am,” she said. “I’m always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.”

– all from Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.

Every passive mollusk demonstrates the hidden rigor of introversion, the power that is contained in peace.

– both from Jitterbug Perfume