Tom Robbins's Quotes

Well, I have never, ever Googled myself.

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 up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors.

In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

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.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

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

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.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

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.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

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 be transformed.

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

A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

Education is for growth and fulfillment.