Shane Belcher

“Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker

“Twenty candles on a cake. Twenty Camels in a pack. Twenty months in the federal pen. Twenty shots of tequila down a young girl’s gullet. Twenty centuries since Our Lord’s last pratfall, and after all that time we still don’t know where passion goes when it goes.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker

“The body, the house of the spirit, is under the power of pleasure and pain,” explains a god. “And if a man is ruled by his body then this man can never be free.”
― Charles Seife, Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

“Whether I’m unduly sensitive to this pain because I’m a princess—could the whole world be the pea under my mattress?—I don’t know, but because I’m a princess, I might be able to do something to help lessen humanity’s pain.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker