All Tom Robbins Quotes
- Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if… Air
- The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce… Aerobic
- That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to… Association
- Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better. Better
- Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions. Alive
- Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether… Alarm
- Why procrastinate when you can precognitate? Funny
- He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds,… Becoming
- Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is… All
- The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying… Attention
- The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the… Admittedly
- The function of the artist is to provide what life does not. Artist
- You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it. Always Trying
- Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. Alone
- Some marriages are made in heaven, Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell… Chops
- Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter,… Absolute
- Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and… Absorbed
- Let us, rather, gather facts, all the facts, regardless of aesthetic appeal or theoretical social worth, and spread those facts before us not as the… Aesthetic
- Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses. Christianity
- The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that… Achieve
- As a child, I was an imaginary playmate. Child
- You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in… Anymore
- The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy… All
- Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until… Adolescents
- To the extent that this world surrenders its richness and diversity, it surrenders its poetry; to the extent that it relinquishes its capacity to surprise,… Ability