Quotes from Tom Robbins

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

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.

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

There's a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having... money in the bank.

Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.

The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.

As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.

Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?

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

Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues.

There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it points to you.

John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'

You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has he placed you?

She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang.

Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

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

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