911 Quotes by Tom Robbins

Indeed, the first step toward becoming a true outlaw is the refusal to be victimized.

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.

Those people who recognise that imagination is reality’s master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.

Elsewhere, they might call the wind Mariah, but here its name was Something Fishy.

The whole universe is a complex of rhythms,” mused Amanda. “We each of us feel a need to identify our bodily rhythms with those of the cosmos. The sea is the grand agency of rhythm. The grain-tops in the wind, the atoms that orbit are rhythmic. The uterus, which is a strong muscular organ, contracts with the birth of a baby – the rhythmic contractions, in fact, are the important motivations for the baby to emerge into the world. Rhythm is how it all begins.

Our world isn’t made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.

Wasn’t it made clear that civilization is not an end in itself but a theater or gymnasium in which the evolving individual finds facilities for practice?

Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can’t handle real freedom.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.