Tom Robbins quotes

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. (Tom Robbins)
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
Tom Robbins
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.
Tom Robbins
There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.
Tom Robbins
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
Tom Robbins
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins
There is no such thing as a weird human being. It's just that some people require more understanding than others.
Tom Robbins
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
Tom Robbins
Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.
Tom Robbins
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.
Tom Robbins
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. (Tom Robbins)
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Tom Robbins
And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of that?
Tom Robbins
There are essential and inessential insanities. The latter are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.
Tom Robbins
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Tom Robbins
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
Tom Robbins
Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.
Tom Robbins
Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.
Tom Robbins
Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.
Tom Robbins
The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.
Tom Robbins
"I'll follow him to the ends of the earth," she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that. (Tom Robbins)
Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.
Tom Robbins
I have always been a romantic; one of those who believes that a woman in pink circus tights holds all the secrets of the world.
Tom Robbins
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.
Tom Robbins
Love is dope, not chicken soup.
Tom Robbins