Tom Robbins Quotes

You gotta come home. Be with me. After what we been through! We—we signed into that motel as man and wife! You put—you put your mouth on me.Shoulda checked the fine print, hon, whispered Ellen Cherry,...

[R]ed hair is slow to lay back once it's got its dandruff up, and her bitchy mood required further opportunity to express itself.

Küçük mucizeleri kabul ettiğimiz zaman kendimizi büyük mucizeleri hayal edebilecek yeterlilikte hissederiz. bir istiridyenin içinden parlak, canlı, lezzetli bir canlının çıkabileceğini kabul ettiğimiz...

'how then does soul differ from spirit?' you're probably asking yourself. although he must have been reasonably sure nobody was. Well, soul is darker of color, denser of volume, saltier of flavor, rou...

Actually, there are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

And then the rains came. They came down from the hills and up from the sound. And it rained a sickness. And it rained a fear. And it rained an odor. And it rained a murder. And it rained dangers and p...

But having acquired a taste for solitude, each of them spent days separate and alone, Leigh-Cheri in the attic, Bernard in the pantry. Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the r...

But the most insidious and dangerous of false religions is secular humanism. It’s so crafty, so sneaky, with its kindness and its decency, that only Satan hisself could’ve come up with it.

Can a woman who does not know the contents of her handbag know the contents of her heart?

Carelessness is a weakness that isn't tolerated in this order, he says in a voice that the average housewife would have to take out of the freezer at two in the afternoon if she wanted it thawed in ti...

Civilization is a mutant beast that emerged from the shattered egg of primitive stability.-Sissy Hankshaw

Claude could simply not imagine the couples he met at parties or passed on the street ever being locked in carnal embrace.

Courage is where you find it. Bravery that comes from a bottle-- or from book or from a sermon-- lacks the full strength and purity of bravery that comes straight from the heart.

Dip a slice of bread in batter. That's September: yellow, gold, soft and sticky. Fry the bread. Now you have October: chewier, drier, streaked with browns. The day in question fell somewhere in the mi...

Does koala bear poop smell like cough drops?

Don't let yourself be victimized by the age you live in. It's not thetimes that will bring us down, any more than it's society. When youput the blame on society, then you end up turning to society for...

Dreamily the Princess stood up. I'm not sure if I can walk, she said.Then I'll carry you.Is that what love is?I no longer know what love is. A week ago I had a lot of ideas. What love is and how to ma...

Every fifteen minutes or so the harvest moon would bleed through the tourniquet of cloud cover that conspired to squeeze every droplet of pictorial sentiment out of the Skagit landscape in order that...

Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation.

Growing up is a trap, snapped Dr. Robbins. When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, pr...