are you dreaming, Frederick?

"Money itself was incomprehensible. Almost from its inception, it had perplexed and befuddled those in whose lives it had appeared, and although they dealt with it on a daily, if not hourly, basis, and although it worked in their every thought the way that yeast worked on bread, they were no closer to understanding it than they had been in the beginning...it clouded the vision of the world, yes, you guessed it, like a veil."
--Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

"In the past, she'd embraced the suffering artist image...but in her heart she had always considered artisthood more of a privilege than a curse, and those to whom the creative life brought only misery, she now invited to go into food service. The world could always use another waitress, another fry cook."
--Tom Robbins

"As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with all sorts of tyranny, poverty, and painful treatment if they're convinced that they'll eventually escape to some resort in the sky where lifeguards are superfluous and the pool never closes."
--Tom Robbins

"Follow your weird."
--Cory Doctorow