All Tom Robbins Quotes
- We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but thats no matter. The sea is… Alienation
- Cant you understand that romanticism is no more an enemy of science than mysticism is? In fact, romanticism and science are good for each other.… Cant
- I could say I believe in every drop of rain that . . . Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an… Believe
- Heaven is living in your hopes and Hell is living in your fears. It's up to each individual which one he chooses. Chooses
- Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject. Clue
- Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true. Come True
- Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes… Absolute
- Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent! Consistent
- My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well. Adventure
- Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the… Any
- I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life. Anything Else
- Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be. Afraid
- Redheads are said to be children of the moon, thwarted by the sun and addicted to sex and sugar. Addicted
- The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it. Civilization
- Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being. Consciously
- Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure. Adventure
- The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life. Artist
- If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon and a dribble of dark molasses.… Cross
- The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so… Allow
- When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens. Accept
- In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions of fixity absurd.… Absolute
- Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed… Arteries
- More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And… Ancients
- If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up… Absentee
- I removed the freeway from its temporal context. Overpasses, cloverleafs, exit ramps took on the personality of Mayan ruins for me. Without destination, without cessation,… Abstracted