“A little boy, he can play like he's a fireman or a cop--although fewer and fewer are pretending to be cops, thank… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. — 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
“How could you be so naive as to tell a human being the truth? Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The truth, from my perspective, is that the world, indeed, is ending - and is also being reborn. It's been doing that… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Birth, copulation, and death. Fine. In truth, however, there were at least two other things in which Amanda strongly believed. Namely: magic… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Is that man's fate: to spend his closest hours to truth longing for a lie?” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“We modern human beings are looking at life, trying to make some sense of it; observing a 'reality' that often seems to… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Reality is subjective, and there’s an unenlightened tendency in this culture to regard something as ‘important’ only if ‘tis sober and severe.… — 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