Jitterbug Perfume

by Tom Robbins

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

If you didn't serve the nasty fellow, the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down.

“Everyone knows that ghosts don't piss!”

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.”

An erection is just inappropriate. Then she realized with a shock that she was so wet that children could have sailed toy boats in her underpants.

Like that rarity, the wise husband, it was strong enough to possess its mate, secure enough to allow her freedom.

it is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards;

the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received."

Only the beet departs the body the same color as it went in.