The trickster’s function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom. – Tom Robbins
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for. – Tom Robbins
To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen. – Tom Robbins
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being. – Tom Robbins
Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle – even though it cannot be solved – is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine. – Tom Robbins
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. – Tom Robbins
I’ve decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India. – Tom Robbins
I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured. – Tom Robbins
The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who’ve spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who’ve been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies. – Tom Robbins
One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They’ll do everything except rotate your tires. – Tom Robbins
I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors. – Tom Robbins
In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations – ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies – were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. – Tom Robbins
We’re our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. – Tom Robbins
The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes. – Tom Robbins
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. – Tom Robbins
What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. – Tom Robbins
A child’s mind is its living room; it’s is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence. – Tom Robbins
