Quotes from Tom Spanbauer

Stars, hard bits of diamond light.

If you own yourself, you own the world.

Music is the structure of the invisible," she says.

It's all sad, Gruney," Hank said. "If we let ourselves know how sad it really is, there wouldn't be anything left of us.

The men stared with hatred, stared the way only Christians can hate, especially Mormons.

most religious people had given up their right to being human beings by claiming they had the God's truth and nobody else had any truth.

Looking for who I am is who I am.

The key to being a warrior is not to be afraid of who you are.

takes a devil to make a decent angel.

To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.

The universe has always conspired to fuck me up.

Maybe you've had skin next to your skin, but when was the last time you let yourself be touched?

It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story.

Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.

Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.

I was wounded by a blow of love.

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

You're going this way and then shit happens and then you're going that way.

The way I figure it, we know we got this world, so live in this one while you're here. I figure the next one will take care of itself.

Trying to change yourself is as hard as trying to change the universe. Maybe there's no difference. The fact is, shit happens none of us plan on.

Weird here is something we aspire to, something we perfect, get degrees in, get awards for.

Why else do we live, except to be loved and remembered by those we love?

A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different—is a jackass, and no longer deserves to be called human being.