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
I don't want to give the impression that I hold daily conversations with my household appliances, although my toaster is as old… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You’ve never learned to communicate your feelings… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Logic only gives man what he needs,” he stammered. “Magic gives him what he wants.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a… — 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
What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets. Under… — 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
