Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is united by it alone … And to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

He wondered what the man's name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil of heart, or what lies or threats had led him on the long march from his home; and if he would not really rather have stayed there in peace.

I want to be a comfort to my friends in tragedy, I want to laugh with them in triumph, and in between I just want to be able to look them in the eye.

Interestingly, oil geologists had known for years that if you wanted to find oil, you had to allow for precisely the sort of surface movements that were implied by plate tectonics. But oil geologists didn't write academic papers; they just found oil.

Bergeron's epitaph for the planet, I remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the Grand Canyon for the flying-saucer people to find, was this: WE COULD HAVE SAVED IT, BUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAP. Only he didn't say 'doggone'.

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

For real heroes, saving the world is already personal.

The romance of new love, the romance of solitude, the romance of objecthood, the romance of ancient pyramids and distant stars are means of making contact with the mystery. When it comes to perpetuating it, however, I got no advice. But I can and will remind you of two of the most important facts I know:

1. Everything is part of it.
   
2. It's never too later to have a happy childhood.

- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker