Michael

“She did know that once tattooed one could no longer expect to lie for all eternity in an orthodox Jewish cemetery. They wouldn't even bury women with pierced ears. A strange theory of mutilation from the people who invented cutting the skin off the pee-pee.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“Sentimental memories were like sugar-water icicles.”
― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

“No; that doesn't interest me.'
'That's because you never read a book about it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.”
― Tom Robbins