“Life isn't simple; it's overwhelmingly complex. The love of simplicity is an escapist drug, like alcohol.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Pan is right,” he thought. “Death can ruin a man's life even though he go on breathing.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Those who shun the whimsy in life will experience rigormortis before death.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Wasn’t there a surplus in life of the boring, the repetitive, the mediocre, and the tame? Shouldn’t she be glad, grateful for… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
What I’ve learned along the way is that existence is cosmic theatre, but paradoxically, we should play our roles to the absolute… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
All a person can do in this life is gather about him his integrity, his imagination, and his individuality – and with… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“the professor had refused surgery for the rupturing aorta that was wiping his personal equation off the blackboard of life. “It is… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous;… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged. — Tom Robbins Copy Share
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. — Tom Robbins Copy Share
“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share
“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
“The glue that holds the natural world together appears to be a harmonious balance of opposites: day and night, light and dark, winter and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
“religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. — Tom Robbins Copy Share
