People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside they resent those structures, and they're scared to death of that stuff because they know it controls them and restricts their movements.
Tom RobbinsThose people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.
Tom RobbinsZippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and slick. A zipper is where the Industrial Revolution meets the Cobra Cult.
Tom RobbinsThe trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. Youโve never learned to communicate your feelings to a man. You donโt even want to communicate in a relationship. You think that if you open up to love, youโll lose your independence or your self-expression or creativity or whatever you call all that passionate, wonderful stuff that makes you feel alive inside.
Tom Robbins