Transcend evil, my friends

I just finished the novel Jitterbug Perfume, about immortality and scent. I didn't love it, but there were a few great nuggets to weigh in the palm of the mind. Thanks, Tom Robbins.

Whatever else his long, unprecedented life might have been, it had been fun. Fun! If others should find that appraisal shallow, frivolous, so be it. To him, it seemed now to largely have been some form of play. And he vowed that in the future he would strive to keep that sense of play more in mind, for he'd grown convinced that play--more the piety, more than charity or vigilance--was what allowed human beings to transcend evil.

And

it is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards;