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

- Tom Spanbauer

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.

- Tom Spanbauer

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

- Tom Spanbauer

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

- Tom Spanbauer

Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.

- Tom Spanbauer

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

- Tom Spanbauer

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

- Tom Spanbauer

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.

- Tom Spanbauer

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.

- Tom Spanbauer