“Pink is what red looks like when it kicks off its shoes and lets its hair down. Pink is the boudoir color, the cherubic color, the color of Heaven’s gates. (Not pearly or golden, brothers and sisters: pink.) Pink is as laid back as beige, but while beige is dull and bland, pink is laid back with attitude.”

—Tom Robbins, ‘The Eight-Story Kiss’, Wild Ducks Flying Backward; the short writings of Tom Robbins, 2005.