Tom Robbins Quotes

Midnight, when the monotonous tick-tock of diurnal progress is for one throbbing moment replaced by the cool but smokey honk of a saxophone, alternately seductive and threatening. Midnight. The black growth on the clock face that has to be biopsied every twenty-four hours to see whether it is malignant or benign.

It's a smile a girl could bring home to mother, if she had a mother; a smile a girl could pet like a pony, sip like a lemonade, hum like a popular tune; a smile a girl would feel safe with in a dark alley.

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines'.

keep your eye on the ball, even if you cannot see the ball.

Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark

Not naive, Conch Shell had corrected him, "He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear."

A person can't make a career out of somebody else's invective.

...she recreated the mountains not as she had originally seen them but as she eventually chose to perceive them, not only a capacity to observe the world but a capacity to alter his or her observation of it — which, in the end, is the capacity to alter the world, itself. Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call "sages," and those who act upon it, we call "artists."

Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.

The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

It couldn't have been Pan's output alone because Alobar's testicles were as flat and juiceless as trampled grapes.

They were old enough to know better. Some of them were old enough to remember when old Macdonald had a farm.

Most snoring is composed by Beethoven or Wagner, although a few times Wiggs had heard heavy metal rock performed on the somnambulate bassoon.