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
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
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
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
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
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
Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t… — 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
![“My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and the suffering and the corruption and all that but refusing to let it rain on my parade. And I advocate this to other people.” quote by Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eb3/tom-robbins-169_corruption_my-personal-motto-has-always-been-joy-in_557352.jpg)
