People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99) — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
there are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I don't have a very high opinion, actually, of the world of criticism - or the practice of criticism. I think I… — 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
To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I believed in looking at people as individuals, not in groups. I hated groups; still do. And I saw particularly the university,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside… — 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
