Tom Robbins

"It is more important to be free than to be happy."

"Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival."

"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."

"It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure."

"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."

"Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously."

"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."

"The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being."

"In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak."

"Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death."

"In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke my friends. The soul is the punch line."