Tom Robbins Quotes
Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.
Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.
Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.
One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires.
You have to eat your technique. Digest it. It's in your blood, but you're not concerned with it anymore.
There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.
Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which afford us the greatest privacy
There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?
As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.
I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf.
You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.
You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.
Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.
Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.
From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.
Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats.
Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots.
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.
salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.
There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.
Some marriages are made in heaven, Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart.
If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'.
There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.
Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.
The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.
They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning.
I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.
