Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins
Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins is an American novelist. His best-selling novels are "seriocomedies", often wildly poetic stories with a strong social and philosophical undercurrent, an irreverent bent, and scenes extrapolated from carefully researched bizarre facts. His novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was made into a movie in 1993 by Gus Van Sant and stars Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, and Keanu Reeves...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 July 1932
CityBlowing Rock, NC
CountryUnited States of America
When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.
I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.
Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.
A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.
Success can eliminate as many options as failure.
Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.
Don't talk about it - you'll talk it away. Let the ideas flow from your mind to the page without exposing them to air. Especially hot air.
There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. It's always preferable to be in trouble with others. In fact, it may be essential.
Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going.
The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of their resources that, in a sense, everything we experience is a reduction. We employ drugs, yoga techniques and poetics - and a thousand more clumsy methods - in an effort just to bring things back up to normal.
Does koala bear poop smell like cough drops?
Kissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss.
Love is the ultimate outlaw.
If you were Jesus with missing years to kill where would you go?