All Tom Robbins Quotes
- Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more. Any
- Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding. Desperate
- It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes. Funny
- Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as… Blue
- But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by… Best
- What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was… Abu
- Summer had come to sit on New York's face. Face
- The first thunderstorm of the season was in the dressing room, donning its black robes and its necklace of hailstones, strapping on its electrical sword. Black
- Dip a slice of bread in batter. That's September: yellow, gold, soft and sticky. Fry the bread. Now you have October: chewier, drier, streaked with… Batter
- Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary. Adversaries
- I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the more difficult for… Believe
- How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by… Accurate
- If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will. Beat
- This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper. Funny
- When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just… Humans
- Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving. Dopey
- As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with… Adventure
- Magic things are fond of deceptions. Deception
- Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time. Anybody
- It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards;… Aggressive
- Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a… Assistance
- The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could… Ago
- The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to… All
- Every day is Judgement Day. Always has been. Always will be. Been
- There are apparently few limitations either of time or space on where the psyche might journey and only the customs inspector employed by our own… Apparently