Famous Quotes by Tom Robbins

Below are famous quotes by Tom Robbins - US novelist (1936 - ).

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

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.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.

Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for.

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities.

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