911 Quotes by Tom Robbins

Faith is believing in something you know isn’t true.

Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as ‘common sense’ has never produced anything worth celebrating.

Ellen Cherry understood then that religion was an improper response to the Divine.

When we accept bad art because it’s good politics, we’re killing the swan to feed the chickens.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it’s the cyanide.

It’s hard to say who’s a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.

Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right.

Hope springs eternal and all that, yet isn’t it a fact that when we give up and quit hoping; genuinely, sincerely quit hoping, things usually change for the better? Zen masters say that when we become convinced that the human situation is hopeless, we approach serenity, the ideal state of mind.

Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it’s love and love alone that really matters.