There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things that go boom in the night. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened! — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“What I'm saying is simply that every totalitarian society, no matter how strict, has had its underground. In fact, two undergrounds. There's… — 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