To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen. – Tom Robbins
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. – Tom Robbins
In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations – ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies – were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. – Tom Robbins
The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place, as I have argued. But their place is not simply back there in a separate and foreign country; it is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present. – David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country