All Tom Robbins Quotes
- I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they… Cannot Comprehend
- This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself… Amanda
- Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue. Elmer
- Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense. Delicious
- You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!"… Asked
- Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a… Avenue
- It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful... Better
- The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves. Arithmetic
- I travel in gardens and bedrooms, basements and attics, around corners, through doorways and windows, along sidewalks, over carpets, down drainpipes, in the sky, with… Along
- Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists. Act
- Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. Confuses
- As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty… Any
- Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon. Aggressiveness
- Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great… Always Write
- Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure. Claim
- His voice wore no pants. Inspirational
- If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal.… America
- Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is… Amnesia
- The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed… Authoritarians
- Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem. Attack
- Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt. Cents
- Love is dope, not chicken soup. Chicken
- People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99) Beauty
- You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked… Belief
- The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime. Authority