“Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Sometimes one gets the idea that life thinks it's still living in Paris in the thirties.” — 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
“You see, at that juncture in my life I wasn’t evolved enough to understand the fluid nature of romantic love (its indifference… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“To wit: actions, like sounds, divide the flow of time into beats.[...]The quality of a man's life depends on the rhyhmic structure… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“As long as there are fuses, no walls are safe. As long as every wall is threatened, the world can happen. Outlaws… — 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
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
“At birth we are red-faced, round, intense, pure. The crimson fire of universal consciousness burns in us. Gradually, however, we are devoured… — 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
“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
“Long as you’re not afraid, nobody can run your life for you. Remember that. Hell is being scared of things.” — 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
“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s. — 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
“The function of the artist,' the Navajo answered, 'is to provide what life does not.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“To pragmatists, the letter Z is nothing more than a phonetically symbolic glyph, a minor sign easily learned, readily assimilated, and occasionally… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“There's just one thing in this life that's better than happiness and that's freedom. It's more important to be free than to… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the… — 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
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
