Quotes from Tom Robbins

A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

People are never perfect, but love can be.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.

Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

In the end what will prevail is your passion not your tale, for love is the Holy Grail.

There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.

The only question is how to make love stay.

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

The truth, from my perspective, is that the world, indeed, is ending - and is also being reborn. It's been doing that all day, every day, forever.

Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.

A writer needs a life of introspection.

The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.

One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires.

The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.

Unfortunately, little darlings, there is no such thing as a simple love story.The most transitory puppy crush is complex to the extent of lying beyond the far reaches of the brain's understanding.

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

Love is the ultimate outlaw.