Helen

“Was he becoming paranoid?
No. At least not when compared to Skeeter Washington, who, admiring the stars one evening on the deck of Poe's boat, was heard to say, "If the universe be expanding, they gotta be something chasing it.”
― Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

“Outside, the rains had come, the rains that like a blizzard of guppies would pelt the creaky old house until spring. There is no weeping that can compete with the northwest rains.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“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

“Love is the ultimate outlaw.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker