Tom Spanbauer quotes:

Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

The gods know what's important, what's wrong about you. They know everything. If you go out searching for the Holy Grail, they won't let you find it.

I'm an old Catholic. I don't believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide. One

Fuck hope and all the tiny little towns, one-horse towns, the one-stoplight towns, three-bars country-music jukebox-magic parquet-towns, pressure-cooker pot-roast frozen-peas bad-coffee married-heterosexual towns, crying-kids-in-the-Oldsmobile-beat-your-kid-in the-Thriftway-aisles towns, one-bank one-service-station Greyhound-Bus-stop-at-the-Pepsi-Cafe towns, two-television towns, Miracle Mile towns, Viv's Double Wide Beauty Salon towns, schizophrenic-mother towns, buy-yourself-a-handgun towns, sister-suicide towns, only-Injun's-a-dead-Injun towns, Catholic-Protestant-Mormon-Baptist religious-right five-churches Republican-trickle-down-to-poverty family-values sexual-abuse pro-life creation-theory NRA towns, nervous-mother rodeo-clown-father those little-town-blues towns.

Looking for who I am is who I am.

Felt good, though, just being what I was.

Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

Miracles are out there somewhere. You just got to find them.

Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.

The way I figure it, we know we got this world, so live in this one while you're here. I figure the next one will take care of itself.

We're all just in our bodies for a moment in our life. Such a brave and lovely act it is to let the body celebrate.

It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story.

With tybo men there isn't much difference between fucking and killing.

To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.

Have some fun while you wait for the will of heaven.

Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.

I was wounded by a blow of love.

Life is absolutely, mysteriously beautiful.

Maybe you've had skin next to your skin, but when was the last time you let yourself be touched?

takes a devil to make a decent angel.

The key to being a warrior is not to be afraid of who you are.

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?

Why else do we live, except to be loved and remembered by those we love?