Tom Robbins Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.”

“What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.”

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

“Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.”

“At the typewriter you find out who you are.”

“Education is for growth and fulfillment.”

“When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.”

“I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'”

“Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.”

“Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.”