Jess

“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

“Never trust anyone who uses the word party as a verb but never trust anyone who would rather be grammatically correct than to party.”
― Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All

“What bothers me today is the lack of, well, I guess you'd call it authentic experience. So much is a sham. So much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized. You know, less than half a century ago there were sixty-three varieties of lettuce in California alone. Today, there are four. And they are not the four best lettuces, either; not the most tasty or nutritious. They are the hybrid lettuces with built-in shelf life, the ones that have a safe, clean, consistent look in the supermarket. It's that way with so many things. We're even standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. The sham is everywhere.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized society was to call the old magic back to life.

Could it be done? Yeah, you pessimistic wimps, it could. Could she do it? Probably not, but she could give it a whirl.”
― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All