"Villa Incognito" Quotes
"Villa Incognito" by Tom Robbins is a whimsical and satirical novel intertwining the lives of a mysterious U.S. Army deserter, a Japanese sniper, and a secretive village in Laos, exploring themes of freedom, identity, and the absurdities of war.
fiction | 256 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
The purpose of the Tao Te Ching is simply to point to the moon. To operate in the world instead of speculating about it.
The mind is just another muscle.
The universe is a cosmic joke.
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
The Tibetan word for ego means 'that which is always dissatisfied.'
To be free, one must give up a little portion of oneself.
The trick with science fiction is not to prove that something--a time machine, a robot, a mutant, a fucking TARDIS--would be nice to have. It's to prove first that it wouldn't be nice to have. To prove that having such things would make the universe a less interesting place.
How can one person be a legend? I'm not sure. But if it's possible, Joe DiMaggio is a legend.
To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart - this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.
