911 Quotes by Tom Robbins

Violence stinks no matter which side of it you’re on. But now and then there’s nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.

Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills that cure ignorance and pills that cure boredom. I have pills to elevate moods and pills to open people’s eyes to the awful truth: uppers and downers as they were. I sell pills to help people find themselves and pills to help them lose themselves when they require escape from the pressures and anxieties of life in a complex society...

Time brought along its secretary, memory, and space brought its brat, loneliness.

They coil around each other, the light and the darkness, and they absorb each other continuously, yet they never cancel each other out.

He was as nervous as a praying mantis at an atheists’ picnic...

Madame Lily Devalier always asked “Where are you?” in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous.

Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it’s living in Paris in the ’30s.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables.

The trickster’s function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.