Quotes from Tom Robbins

Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject.

…he glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if she were a lost continent about to be rediscovered.

Eighty percent of love is smell.

Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin.

Leave it to a naive world-saver like you to view our love as a Sacred Cause when in actual fact all it was was some barking at the moon.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though it cannot be solved - is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine.

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

The more advertising I see, the less I want to buy.

Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary.

Logic only gives man what he needs, " he stammered. "Magic gives him what he wants.

Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.

My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?

People are never perfect, but love can be.

The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.

Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.

To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

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

But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.

The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.

I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.

Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is knowing exactly who one is - and still not caring.

It doesn't matter how sensitive you are or how damn smart and educated you are, if you're not both at the same time, if your heart and your brain aren't connected, aren't working together harmoniously, well, you're just hopping through life on one leg. You may think you're walking, you may think you're running a damn marathon, but you're only on a hop trip. The connections gotta be maintained.