People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
—Logan Pearsall Smith
Salvation is for the feeble, that’s what I think. I don’t want salvation. I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.
—Tom Robbins
People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.
—Tom Robbins
Growing up is a trap. When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. 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.
—Tom Robbins
What limits people is that they don’t have the fucking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it.
—Tom Robbins
Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.
—Tom Robbins
Despair is as addictive as heroin and more popular than sex, for the single reason that when one is unhappy one gets to pay a lot of attention to oneself. Misery becomes a kind of emotional masturbation.
—Tom Robbins
We’re making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.
—Tom Robbins
It doesn’t matter how sensitive you are or how damn smart and educated you are, if you’re not both at the same time, if your heart and your brain aren’t connected, aren’t working together harmoniously, well, you’re just hopping through life on one leg.
—Tom Robbins
“You’re better equipped for this world than I am,” she said. “I’m always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.”
—Tom Robbins
Don’t trust anybody who’d rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.
—Tom Robbins
The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.
—Tom Robbins
Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don’t be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
—Tom Robbins
If you lack the iron and the fuzz to take control of your own life, if you insist on leaving your fate to the gods, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense.
—Tom Robbins
Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.
—Tom Robbins