All Tom Robbins Quotes
- In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. Authority
- I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. Believe
- The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas. Allan
- True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to… Balanced
- Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars. Doe
- To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. Exercise
- To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen. Change
- To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. Achieve
- When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Grow
- A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence. Child
- I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the… All
- People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. Imagination
- When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle. Bottle
- If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it. Committed
- Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. Both
- In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned… Accepted
- A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder'… Appeals
- I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and… Always Knows
- I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it… Appalachia
- In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk… Bottom
- One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything… Aphrodisiac
- The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into… All
- The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on… Anymore
- The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out… Barn
- The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of… Any