Quotes from Tom Robbins

Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life.

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

There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.

Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.

People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.

Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!

Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.

What we have here is an unexpected touchdown on the runway of the heart.

There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.

People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

Success can eliminate as many options as failure

Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.

We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.

Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.

I'm not infatuated with frivolousness. We're just good friends.

I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.

The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.

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