Quotes By Tom Robbins

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

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

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

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

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

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

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

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

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

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

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