911 Quotes by Tom Robbins

I’ve long tended to regard the interruption of complacency as a kind of public service.

South Richmond was a neighborhood of mouse holes, lace curtains, Sears catalogs, measles epidemics, baloney sandwiches- and men who knew more about the carburetor than they knew about the clitoris.

One of the other musicians said that the tambourine is a female due to the fact that it makes a pretty jingle and is designed to be spanked. That is the more recent, patriarchal attitude, I suppose.

Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it’s a costly mistake to spread it too thin.

Was it wife soup and husband soup on the Other Side? Or was it simply soup?

People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside they resent those structures, and they’re scared to death of that stuff because they know it controls them and restricts their movements.

Isn’t fixity the hallmark of the living dead?

There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself. Answer me that and I will ease your mind about the beginning and the end of time. Answer me that and I will reveal to you the purpose of the moon.

I am cheerful. I don’t know if I’m happy. There is a difference, you know.