911 Quotes by Tom Robbins

Alcoholism is an imperfect spiritual longing.

You know what the game of golf is, don’t you? It’s basketball for people who can’t jump and chess for people who can’t think.

There’re many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they’re victims.

Sissy Hankshaw once taught a parakeet to hitchhike.

Carelessness is a weakness that isn’t tolerated in this order,” he says in a voice that the average housewife would have to take out of the freezer at two in the afternoon if she wanted it thawed in time for supper.

A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time.

Dreams don’t come true. Dreams are true.

Beer’s nice for being glad and dizzy, and sometimes for the mystery and stuff, but the happy that comes out of a beer can is not like the real happy you got to make in your heart.

Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior’s Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.