Emily Schechtman

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

“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

“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

“By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume