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
I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot… — 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
I never outline. I don't work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The new wrinkle is that escalating advances in technology are nourishing the narcissistic ego the way chicken manure nourishes a rose bush,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we're going… — 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
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
So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The odor of frying bacon, sausage links, and ham tiptoed on little pig feet all the way to the north end of… — 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 think too much is known about me already. I think biographical information can get in the way of the reading experience.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Actually, there are countless ways to live upon this tremorous sphere in mirth and good health, and probably only one way -… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
What I’ve learned along the way is that existence is cosmic theatre, but paradoxically, we should play our roles to the absolute… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush… — 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
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
