Emily Schechtman

“If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, if you insist on leaving your fate to the gods, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“(Maybe there is no proper way to react to the inner animal's tunes but dance to them.)”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“Granny and me alone on Judgment Day and wonder if there is some wider meaning there, some cryptic message from a hidden dimension, from the Other, from the Over Self. Or if it was simply that heaven didn’t want us and hell was afraid we’d take over.”
― Tom Robbins, Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life

“He said, 'The perfect taco.' That's it, those were his last words. He sighed, 'Ahhh,' and said, 'The perfect taco.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume