Tom Robbins Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“A child's mind is its living room; it's going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.”

“I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.”

“I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.”

“Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.”

“Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though it cannot be solved - is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine.”

“We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.”

“If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.”

“In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.”

“In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.”

“When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself.”