Tom Spanbauer

“I tell you I'm tired of hearing it. There ain't nothing that happens to a person that ain't that person. The world out there only does what you tell it to do. The world is happening to you the way it is happening because you're telling yourself the story that way. If you want to change the world so damn bad, Ida, then where you got to start is how it is you're looking at it.”

“Looking for who I am is who I am.”

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

“Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.”

“Felt good, though, just being what I was.”

“God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?”

“That's when you stop being one way and start being another, Ruby said. Not something many people can do, or want to do. In fact, Ruby said, The only people who cross over, cross over because they're on some kind of Mission Impossible.I could no longer live and stay the way I was, I said.”

“There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.”

“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.”