Quotes from Tom Robbins

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.

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.

Each time we exhale, the world ends; when we inhale, there can be, if we allow it, rebirth and spiritual renewal. It all transpires inside of us. In our consciousness, in our hearts. All the time.

My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.

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.

I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.

Life is hard if you think it's hard.

Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others, such as Kudra, seek to pry the lid off and hop out.

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

When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself.

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

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

A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans.

The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'

Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.

The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.

Above all, have a good time. If you aren't enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.

Writing is the hardest physical work there is.

If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn't next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness.

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.

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.

Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.

Love is dope, not chicken soup.

If love eats the donut, does time eat the hole?