Quotes About Tom Robbins

I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India.

Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent.

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

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

Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.

There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.

Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential.

You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing.

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

What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was.

How can men be such lummoxes, such wads of chewing gum on our ballet slippers and still feel so good?

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. Still, lovers quarrel. Frequently, they quarrel simply to recharge the air between them, to sharpen the aliveness of their relationship.

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 that aspect of New Orleans off you is to eat it off.

The University of Pineapple is my alma papaya, I graduated mango cum laude.")

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.

In the novels he was to write as an adult, transformation (along with liberation and celebration) was a major theme.

Max's heart made a sound like the sleigh bells on Mrs. Santa Claus's dildo.

no amount of money could buy security, and if it could, it would be a bad bargain at any price, since security was a form of paralysis, just as satisfaction was a form of death;

Criminals, because they're plagued with guilt, often will surrender and go quietly. Outlaws, because they're pure, never will.

In Bokonon, it is written that "peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

Once, Princess Leigh-Cheri used a papal candlestick for the purpose of self-gratification. She had hoped that at the appropriate moment she might be visited by either the Lamb or the Beast, be, as usual, only Ralph Nader attended her.

We entertain the immortals in order that they might be persuaded to help us recover the strength and unity stolen from us by death.

If he's like a lot of men, he'd rather be a murderer than a fool.

There are those who have condemned Leary as a liar, a sellout, an opportunist, and most of all, a raging egomaniac; but the truth is, he was simply Irish.