Tom Robbins Quotes:
Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle – even though it cannot be solved – is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine.
Tom Robbins
Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can’t handle real freedom.
Tom Robbins
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it’s the cyanide.
Tom Robbins
I am cheerful. I don’t know if I’m happy. There is a difference, you know.
Tom Robbins
At the typewriter you find out who you are.
Tom Robbins
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don’t know how to write sentences.
Tom Robbins
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Our world isn’t made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.
Tom Robbins
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If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Tom Robbins
I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic.
Tom Robbins
We’re our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
Tom Robbins
Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.
Tom Robbins
I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn’t, but she always knows where I’ll be. She doesn’t need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me.
Tom Robbins
When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.
Tom Robbins
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.
Tom Robbins
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
Tom Robbins
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.
Tom Robbins
Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.
Tom Robbins
The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don’t do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.
Tom Robbins
Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.
Tom Robbins
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.
Tom Robbins
To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.
Tom Robbins
Reality is contradictory. And it’s paradoxical.
Tom Robbins
The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who’ve spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who’ve been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.
Tom Robbins
There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.
Tom Robbins
We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.
Tom Robbins
The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.
Tom Robbins
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
Tom Robbins
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Tom Robbins
In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don’t have that luxury.
Tom Robbins
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
Tom Robbins
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.
Tom Robbins
Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.
Tom Robbins