All Tom Robbins Quotes
- Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The principal difference between… Accounts
- Faites de beaux rêves, monsieur," she called as she put out the light. Switters had always loved that expression, "Make fine dreams." In contrast to… Accept
- All a person can do in this life is gather about him his integrity, his imagination, and his individuality – and with these ever with… All
- The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature. Bag
- almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial. Any
- Early religions were like muddy ponds with lots of foliage. Concealed there, the fish of the soul could splash and feed. Eventually, however, religions became… Aquariums
- Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough. Advantage
- If love eats the donut, does time eat the hole? Doe
- what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial,… Artificial
- To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die.… Die
- The more advertising I see, the less I want to buy. Advertising
- But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet… Carpet
- Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines. Aware
- salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the… All
- The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there… All
- Peeple of zee wurl, relax Funny
- It is more important to be free than to be happy. Free
- Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity… Arthurian
- red hair is caused by sugar and lust. Caused
- we've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man moves into a… Banging
- I'll bet I'm as old as you are." "I'm older than Sanskrit." "Well, I was waitress at the Last Supper." "I'm so old I remember… Bet
- Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top. All
- In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another. Beginning
- Minds were made for blowing. Blowing
- Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon. Blood