Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if not for no other reason than that most of us find acknowledging the unknowable and monitoring its intrusions upon the familiar and mundane more than a little embarrassing.
Tom RobbinsThe highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
Tom RobbinsChristianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.
Tom RobbinsHold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.
Tom RobbinsWhen we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come.
Tom RobbinsIt is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets.It weepsfor the black people who think like white people.It weepsfor the Indians who think like settlers.It weepsfor the children who think like adults.It weepsfor the free who think like prisoners.Most of all, it weepsfor the cowgirls who think like cowboys.
Tom Robbins