Tom Spanbauer > Quotes

“Looking for who I am is who I am.”
― Tom Spanbauer, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon

“The key to being a warrior is not to be afraid of who you are.”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“takes a devil to make a decent angel.”
― Tom Spanbauer

“To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“Maybe you've had skin next to your skin, but when was the last time you let yourself be touched?”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“The universe has always conspired to fuck me up.”
― Tom Spanbauer, Now Is the Hour

“It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story.”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.”
― Tom Spanbauer, Now Is the Hour

“Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.”
― Tom Spanbauer, Now Is the Hour

“I was wounded by a blow of love.”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“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.”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“You're going this way and then shit happens and then you're going that way.”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“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.”
― Tom Spanbauer, Now Is the Hour

“Weird here is something we aspire to, something we perfect, get degrees in, get awards for.”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“Why else do we live, except to be loved and remembered by those we love?”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“All this family shit! Harry said. How can you reinvent your life if the original versions won't leave you alone?”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“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.”
― Tom Spanbauer, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon

“Have some fun while you wait for the will of heaven.”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“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.”
― Tom Spanbauer, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon

“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.”
― Tom Spanbauer, Now Is the Hour

“Drop-dead freshly fucked gorgeous.”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“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.”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“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.”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“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.”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“Life is absolutely, mysteriously beautiful.”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“The only way out is in ...”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“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.”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters