In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead many… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“In addition, Dr. Dannyboy has suggested a fifth element: positive thinking. Pointing out that their breathing, bathing, dining and screwing brought Alobar… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“We entertain the immortals in order that they might be persuaded to help us recover the strength and unity stolen from us… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Birth, copulation, and death. Fine. In truth, however, there were at least two other things in which Amanda strongly believed. Namely: magic… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“no amount of money could buy security, and if it could, it would be a bad bargain at any price, since security… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“To physically overcome death – is that not the goal? – we must think the unthinkable thoughts and ask unanswerable questions. Yet… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I do not fear death. I resent it. Everything must die, apparently, and I am no exception. But I want to be… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It was autumn, the springtime of death. Rain spattered the rotting leaves, and a wild wind wailed. Death was singing in the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“As a grandiose self-deception, war is o’ the same magnitude as religion. We embrace war or religion - usually both at the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Those who shun the whimsy in life will experience rigormortis before death.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.” — 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
At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing… — 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 Image
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 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
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 Image
Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
