Tom Robbins Quotes
You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has he placed you?
Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin.
Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.
The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure)
When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.
Leave it to a naive world-saver like you to view our love as a Sacred Cause when in actual fact all it was was some barking at the moon.
Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.
Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the "end times," but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years.
I never outline. I don't work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds of the way through, I don't know how it's going to end.
I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.
If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.
Jackson Pollock said once, "I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive." He said, "That's why I like you, Tom. You're alive."
I don't want to give the impression that I hold daily conversations with my household appliances, although my toaster is as old as Drew Barrymore and almost as talented.
I have never ever Googled myself, in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.
I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic.
Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent.
The truth, from my perspective, is that the world, indeed, is ending - and is also being reborn. It's been doing that all day, every day, forever.
When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.
Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.
...disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business....
There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.
But do we know how to make love stay?'I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.
It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.
They accepted my donation, so they're aware they'd better serve my interests or I'll buy some leadership that will.
A sausage is an image of rest, peace and tranquility in stark contrast to the destruction and chaos of everyday life.
Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.
If I have been given any gift in this life, it’s my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the world of imagination.
The highest men are calm, silent and unknown...The true masters seldom reveal themselves, except in the vibrations the leave behind, and upon which the lesser gurus build their doctrines.
There was a marvelous, dark lyricism in his voice, the kind of defiance that is rooted in deep loneliness.
Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.
Is that man's fate: to spend his closest hours to truth longing for a lie?
That's the value of the artist... Even when they aren't aware, they're dreaming our dreams for us.
Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going
the greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. they put forth no claims for themselves, establish no schools of systems in their name. they never create or stir but just melt down into love
If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.
Besides, if I am truly immortal, I am my own grandchild, my own descendant, my own dynasty. I am not obliged to live on through what I pass down to others.
But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.
Beer does not satisfy magic, however. So the magic ordered a round of Harvey Wallbangers. But it takes more than vodka to fuel magic. It takes risks. It takes EXTREMES.
She thought of the things that lovely young women usually think about when they are relaxing in treetops and unhampered by underwear.
