Tom Robbins Quotes & Sayings

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”

“Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.”

“The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.”

“Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.”

“The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.”

“I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors.”

“I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.”

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

“To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.”

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