Quotes
Quotes from Tom Robbins' Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
[T]here are countless ways to live upon this tremendous sphere in mirth and good health, and probably only one way - the industrialized, urbanized, herding way - to live here stupidly, and man has hit upon that one wrong way.
[A]ll a person can do in this life is to 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.
[R]eligion, merely a camouflage system created to modify experience in order to make life more tolerable - another exercise in escapism festooned with mystic crêpe.
[L]et nobody kid himself: spiritual devotion to a popular teacher with an ambiguous dogma is merely a method of making experience more tolerable, not a method for understanding experience or even of accurately describing it.
The brave and liberating thing to do is to embrace experience and tolerate the master. ... If your master really loved you, he would not demand your devotion. He would set you free - from himself, first of all.