Quotes from Tom Robbins

Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.

Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great intensity. The kind of state you would be in before going to bed with your partner. That heightened state when you're in a carnal embrace: time stops and nothing else matters. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

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 barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes.

Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

This cave within a cave, this paleolithic pussy, this decent into the deepest dark of fuck.

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

Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.

Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.

There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.

Every day is Judgement Day. Always has been. Always will be.

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

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.

Although the surface of our planet is two-thirds water, we call it the Earth. We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but that's no matter. The sea is the cradle we all rocked out of, but it's to dust that we go. From the time that water invented us, we began to seek out dirt. The further we separate ourselves from the dirt, the further we separate ourselves from ourselves. Alienation is a disease of the unsoiled.

The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.

I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.

Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods.

At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land. Life is a portage.

It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes.

To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.

Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential.

The Conch Shell´s tint was that of a vagina blowing bubble gum.

It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.