Tom Robbins Quotes

I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they prefer it over and above their friends and loved ones, although I am incline...

Reality is subjective, and there’s an unenlightened tendency in this culture to regard something as ‘important’ only if ‘tis sober and severe. Sure and still you’re right about your Cheerful Dum, only...

Sentimental memories were like sugar-water icicles.

Sissy dear. Your thumbs. HOLLYWOOD SPECTACULAR. LAS VEGAS. THE ROSE BOWL. Larger than any one man's desire.

Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation.

So, even for those of us who can't personally witness Salome's dance, the fifth veil surely will fall. It will fall at the moment of our death. As we lie there, helpless, beyond distraction, electrici...

The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The priest, the rabbi, the imam, the swami, the philosophi...

The most important thing is love, said Leigh-Cheri. I know that now. There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.Leigh-Cheri sent that message to Bernard through his attorney. The...

Every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the words that would accurately describe an emotion or a situation, it lowers their reality orientations, pushes them farther from shor...

Alcoholism is an imperfect spiritual longing.

All things considered, I’ve learned more from talking to painters than talking to writers. Not that painters are smarter than writers, such is seldom the case, but in conversation writers are inclined...

Ama yine de müzikal bir şey bu, küçük bir şiir

Both money and art powdered as they are with the romance and poetry of the age are magic. Rather money is magic art is magik. Money is stagecraft slight of hand a bag of clever tricks. Art is a plexus...

Everything that's alvie was born, and everything that was born has got to die. There's no getting around it. It's the law of the universe.The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can...

How different conditions would be today in the Middle East, how much saner and safer the entire earth might be, had those Christians not defiled a civilization too advanced for their arrogant little m...