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
A child's mind is its living room; it's going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.
I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic.
I'm not infatuated with frivolousness. We're just good friends.
I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India.
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.
As unrefined and basic as an animal's emotional equipment may be, it is not insensitive to freedom. Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.
That's for God sure. People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
The narrow, no-nonsense skeptic is every bit as naive as the breezy-brained New Age believer.
It is never too late to have a happy childhood
We're proposing some stakes increases and more significant increases than the prior year. If the TOC agrees to those, that will take up some of that money. I think we will take a more aggressive approach to our overnights.
Their desperate craving for simplicity sure can create complications. And their pitiful longing for certainty sure can make things unsteady.
Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but in a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all. Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?
The Friendship Center has brought together a lot of couples.
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.