Helen

“There was a purity about him, a blaze in his eyes, that bordered on the charismatic. I also had the sense that hanging out with him would be dangerous: not because he might prove mean, violent, dishonest, or crazier than anybody else I knew, but because he seemed both completely uncompromised and completely uncompromising. As Henry Miller said of Rimbaud, he was “like a man who discovered electricity but knew absolutely nothing about insulation.”
― Tom Robbins, Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life

“Human societies have always defined themselves through narration, but nowadays corporations are telling man’s stories for him.”
― Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates: A Novel

“The University of Pineapple is my alma papaya, I graduated mango cum laude.”),”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker

“When had it begun, my fantasy of the golden letter? It was probably in my late teens or early twenties that I first became inexplicably possessed of the notion that one day the mailman would deliver a letter to my door that would dramatically alter my life. For the better, I should add: this conviction was in no way a premonition of misfortune or sorrow. In fact, in my daydream the letter was surrounded by a kind of golden aura.”
― Tom Robbins, Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life