Quotes from Tom Robbins

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

Wasn't there a surplus in life of the boring, the repetitive, the mediocre, and the tame? Shouldn't she be glad, grateful for this intrusion of the unexpected and unexplained?

THE MINUTE YOU LAND IN NEW ORLEANS, something wet and dark leaps on you and starts humping you like a swamp dog in heat, and the only way to get the aspect of New Orleans off you is to eat it off.

It was 843 B.C.. The year the patriarchs won the pennant.

Nothing is implied here. Except the possibility that everything is connected.

The world is a very strange place,and the dice are always rolling

The odd thing was, Dickie longed to experience that feeling. It wasn't any kind of death wish: there was not a suicidal cell in his body. rather, it seemed that the very sensation, the inner force that made Dickie's scrotum tighten, his throat constrict, and his eyeballs swim in dizziness also made him want to tumble into the precipitous void. And ultimately, his fear of longing to fall was greater, more disturbing, than his fear of falling.

When it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.

They coil around each other, the light and the darkness, and they absorb each other continuously, yet they never cancel each other out.

What I love most about Jerusalem is that it's not about money." "Pardon?" "New York here is a city about money. L.A.'s about money. Las Vegas is about money. Dallas the same. Tokyo and London, Milan, Zurich, Singapore, the whole reason for them is money. Tel Aviv's about money. But Jerusalem, it's not about money." "He is absolutely right," put in Abu. "Jerusalem is about . . . something else.

and while meanness is a function of the insensitive, grumpiness is merely a function of the dissatisfied.

Pigeon she strut on the rooftop Cockroach he strut on the sink My baby strut down to Jerusalem Where blood is the favorite drink

THE SKY IS MORE IMPERSONAL than the sea.

Real courage is risking one's clichés.

In the beginning was the word and the word was CHOICE

Thomas rather thought Foley might ask what purpose was served by an economy whose success and protection depended on people living in ugly, sterile, unhealthy environments-he'd met that argument before and admittedly had had some difficulty refuting it-but the ex-pilot merely shrugged and said, There's more to trees than you think. I've run across some trees I'd sooner hug than a woman.

A few flat clouds folded themselves like crepes over fillings of apricot sky. Pompadours of supper-time smoke billowed from chimneys, separating into girlish pigtails as the breeze combed them out, above the slate rooftops. Chestnut blossoms, weary from having been admired all day, wore faint smiles of anticipation.

Under an orchard tree, dropping with cherries, cowgirls lay in the shade. They fed each other fruit. Dark juice dribbled into dimples. Cherry meat stained smiles and nostrils.

The odor of frying bacon, sausage links, and ham tiptoed on little pig feet all the way to the north end of the second floor. Inevitably, the odor made her simultaneously ravenous and nauseated. She hated the sensation. It reminded her of pregnancy. Every Sunday morning, Leigh-Cheri awoke to a pan of fried fear.

Slang just makes people more stupid, that's all

Yedi cücelerin tek t?raÅŸ olan? Ahmak't?. Bu bize, t?raÅŸ olmaktaki bilgelik hakk?nda bir fikir verebilir

Could a person choose to be or not to be an artist?

Talent was merely the underpinnings. To be an artist, you also had to have nerve. And to maintain nerve, you had to have drive.

Personally, I've found maturity an overrated quality except in wine, for both creative artists and lively people in general have much to gain from facing the world with the unsullied vision, flexible responses, and playful sensibilities of a child.