All Tom Robbins Quotes
- I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book… Alternative
- If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering. Anything Worth
- John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working… Factories
- Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom. American
- Most novelists write about twisted lives. Inspirational
- My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy. Empty
- Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the… Adventure
- Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language. Air
- The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes. All
- The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism. Any
- There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven. Existence
- Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels. All
- Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego. Autobiography
- We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. Bad
- We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. Creating
- Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. Advanced
- Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. Belie
- We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. Dragons
- Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. Accomplice
- Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. Atheist
- The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being. Function
- If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Brain
- Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. Different Things
- Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. Contradictory
- There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for. Dying