Unless otherwise noted all of the following quotes are Tom Robbins People tend to take everything too seriously, especially themselves. And that's probably what makes them hurt so much of the time.
Life is too serious to take seriously.
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you will see why. The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism. Today, the religious right and the academic left seem to be in some kind of competition to brutalize the gene pool. As agents of homogenization, both sides are committed to institutionalized mediocrity. Those who belong to the Religious Right and those who are Politically Correct lack all five of these humanistic characteristics.