Tom Robbins. Awesome, awesome author. Skinny Legs is my favorite, followed very closely by Jitterbug Perfume and a newer one - Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates. I've got all his titles and all are good.
What quotes! Two I like besides the one in my tagline:
"Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet."
"...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line."
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