Each time we exhale, the world ends; when we inhale, there can be, if we allow it, rebirth and spiritual renewal. It… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I think too much is known about me already. I think biographical information can get in the way of the reading experience.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Fire is the reuniting of matter with oxygen. If one bears that in mind, every blaze may be seen as a reunion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I finish the book so I can see how it's going to end. I write that first sentence, and if it's the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we're going… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women?… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism. This can be tricky at times, I suppose, but… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
What are the odds that two separate writers, strangers, a thousand miles apart, would each invent fictions in which guys take girls… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The most important thing in life is style. That is, the style of ones existence-the characteristic mode of ones actions-is basically, ultimately… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon and a dribble… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I could say I believe in every drop of rain that . . . Well, I believe life is a Zen koan,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better. — 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
