911 Quotes by Tom Robbins

They’ve built their nests in the chimneys of my heart: those swallows that you lost.

We’re making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

Amanda became pregnant during a fierce thunderstorm. “Was it the lightning or the lover?” she was sometimes heard to muse. When her son was born with electrical eyes, people no longer thought her foolish.

It’s personal freedom, not hundred dollar bills that lights the soul’s cigar.

This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history’s tragic glitter.

You have to eat your technique. Digest it. It’s in your blood, but you’re not concerned with it anymore.

You don’t have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.

Although the surface of our planet is two-thirds water, we call it the Earth. We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but that’s no matter. The sea is the cradle we all rocked out of, but it’s to dust that we go. From the time that water invented us, we began to seek out dirt. The further we separate ourselves from the dirt, the further we separate ourselves from ourselves. Alienation is a disease of the unsoiled.

Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it’s mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding. But there are folks who want to know and aren’t afraid to look and won’t turn tail should they find it – and if they never do, they’ll have a good time anyway because nothing, neither the terrible truth nor the absence of it, is going to cheat them out of one honest breath of earth’s sweet gas.