All Tom Robbins Quotes
- Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we… All
- When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know… Animal
- There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether… Answer
- White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a… Admiration
- But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization. Center
- Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better. Always Compare
- Don't talk about it - you'll talk it away. Let the ideas flow from your mind to the page without exposing them to air. Especially… Air
- America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and… America
- From the air, Vatican City looked like a marble Monopoly set. The Church owned all the property from Broadwalk to Illinois Avenue, has three hotels… Air
- You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has… Answering
- She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang. God
- The Japanese have become so smitten with the Western condiment - its texture as silky as a kimono, its tang as understated as the tang… Condiment
- As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine. Answered
- Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind before… Advance
- There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. It's always preferable… Always Preferable
- Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but… All
- The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence… Act
- Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality… Create
- A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no… Art
- Life is hard if you think it's hard. Hard
- Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating. Anything Worth
- A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. All
- At the typewriter you find out who you are. Find
- I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know. Cheerful
- I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured. Aging