Quotes from Tom Spanbauer

I tell you I'm tired of hearing it. There ain't nothing that happens to a person that ain't that person. The world out there only does what you tell it to do. The world is happening to you the way it is happening because you're telling yourself the story that way. If you want to change the world so damn bad, Ida, then where you got to start is how it is you're looking at it.

All this family shit! Harry said. How can you reinvent your life if the original versions won't leave you alone?

Have some fun while you wait for the will of heaven.

Drop-dead freshly fucked gorgeous.

We're all just in our bodies for a moment in our life. Such a brave and lovely act it is to let the body celebrate.

For the most part, I'd say if you crossed a cat with a smart dog, made him a matriarchal vegetarian, gave him sleek beauty, a mass of muscle, and the desire to run, then what you'd have is a horse.

Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.

Life is absolutely, mysteriously beautiful.

The gods know what's important, what's wrong about you. They know everything. If you go out searching for the Holy Grail, they won't let you find it.

Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

You know, Rose said, You're not the first man in history who thinks his cock is the path to wisdom. You're not the first man to make his hard-on into the Holy Grail.

Some people like to bitch, Rose said. Bitching is OK. But for me, I choose a kind of joy -- a lucid compulsion -- a polemical kind of fuck-you-motherfucker joy.