Way Quotes by Tom Robbins

There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.

— Tom Robbins

Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn

— Tom Robbins

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like…

— Tom Robbins

The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There…

— Tom Robbins

Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one…

— Tom Robbins

A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be…

— Tom Robbins

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

I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot…

— Tom Robbins

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

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

The odor of frying bacon, sausage links, and ham tiptoed on little pig feet all the way to the north end of…

— Tom Robbins

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way…

— Tom Robbins

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

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

“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

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

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

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

I think too much is known about me already. I think biographical information can get in the way of the reading experience.…

— Tom Robbins

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

In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came…

— Tom Robbins

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

Actually, there are countless ways to live upon this tremorous sphere in mirth and good health, and probably only one way -…

— Tom Robbins

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

Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are…

— Tom Robbins

The new wrinkle is that escalating advances in technology are nourishing the narcissistic ego the way chicken manure nourishes a rose bush,…

— Tom Robbins

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

I believed in looking at people as individuals, not in groups. I hated groups; still do. And I saw particularly the university,…

— Tom Robbins

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