Tom Robbins Quotes

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 ...

There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this...

When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally prese...

Hawaii once had a rat problem. Then, somebody hit upon a brilliant solution. import mongooses from I...

Every nutritious sexual recipe calls for at least a pinch of love, and the fucks that rate four-star...

Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential ...

There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.

How can one person be more real than any other? Well, some people do hide and others seek. Maybe tho...

That's the value of the artist... Even when they aren't aware, they're dreaming our dreams for us.

Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disag...

It's a privilege to love someone, to truly love them; and while it's paradisaical if she or he loves...

If I have been given any gift in this life, it’s my ability to live simultaneously in the rational w...

And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We m...

Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, no...

Soul is not even that Crackerjack prize that God and Satan scuffle over after the worms have all lic...

Are You Ready for New Urban Fragrances?Yeah, I guess I'm ready, but listen:Perfume is a disguise. Si...

After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move i...

Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul...

Beauty! Wasn't that what mattered? Beauty was hardly a popular ideal at that jumpy moment in history...

As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed a...

Information about time cannot be imparted in a straightforward way. Like furniture, it has to be tip...

The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire o...

The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you....

Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful work...

The minute you land in New Orleans, something wet and dark leaps on you and starts humping you like ...

Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplis...

Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they're born with a...

If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but...

A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept...

Boomer had asked her once, in a telephone call from Virginia, “Why does this stuff, these hand-paint...

The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You’ve never learned t...

When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed a...

Jerusalem was capital of southern Israel, known then as Judah. Isn't it true that there's always a r...

One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and t...

Well,' said Can o' Beans, a bit hesitantly,' imprecise speech is one of the major causes of mental i...

…he glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if sh...

There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky ...

The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the arti...

There was a marvelous, dark lyricism in his voice, the kind of defiance that is rooted in deep lonel...

For the ethical, political activism was seductive because it seemed to offer the possibility that on...

Whenever a state or an individual cited 'insufficient funds' as an excuse for neglecting this import...

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.

Reality is subjective, and there’s an unenlightened tendency in this culture to regard something as ...

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in dom...

He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clou...

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, cons...

Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from...

Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead...

Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisd...

Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of som...

Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who r...

They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roo...

On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth w...

It seems like with you everything leads back to the subject of death.""Sure and show me the person's...

She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obsc...

The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then...

If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.

If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same ...

Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and ...

Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of gl...

When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh ...

In order to tame death, they refuse to completely enjoy life. In rejecting complete enjoyment, they ...

All dreams continue in the beyond.

If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of t...

You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.

Who knows how to make love stay?1. Tell love you are going to Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Br...

Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not.Tom Robbins wro...

...ideas are definitely unstable, they not only CAN be misused, they invite misuse--and the better t...

Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to...

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know a...

Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love.Look at it now, plump a...

If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate w...

Conversation between a princess and an outlaw: "If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bait--dra...

If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign...

How can one person be more real than any other? Well, some people do hide and others seek. Maybe tho...

Since when has leadership been a criterion for sanity? Or vice versa. Hitler was a gifted leader, ev...

Humans have evolved to their relatively high state by retaining the immature characteristics of thei...

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fea...

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

Suppose neutral angels were able to talk, Yahweh and Lucifer – God and Satan, to use their popular t...

A few flat clouds folded themselves like crepes over fillings of apricot sky. Pompadours of supper-t...

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse ...

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call the...

There was no burger so soggy that he would not eat it. No tequila so mean that he would not drink it...

If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it andpush it as far as it will g...

Science gives man what he needs.But magic gives him what he wants.

There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the...

I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights c...

If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe eve...

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the tricks...

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's de...

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on...