But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day. Tom Robbins More Quotes by Tom Robbins More Quotes From Tom Robbins I travel in gardens and bedrooms, basements and attics, around corners, through doorways and windows, along sidewalks, over carpets, down drainpipes, in the sky, with friends, lovers, children and heros; perceived, remembered, imagined, distorted and clarified. Tom Robbins garden hero children The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves. Tom Robbins arithmetic valuable legacy Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half. Tom Robbins brooklyn making-love love-you 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 romance two thinking Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends who lack the desire, the courage, or the opportunity to burst in on you when there's some indication that you could be sexually entwined will seldom hesitate to interject themselves between you and a page, even though the act of reading is often as intimate and intense as a full-fledged carnal embrace. Tom Robbins reading desire opportunity Live the beauty or your own reality. Tom Robbins reality We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality. Tom Robbins universe reality world This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter Tom Robbins jezebel glitter rooms Growing up is a trap," snapped Dr. Robbins. "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 growing-up nice mean There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon. Tom Robbins moon character insanity The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape. Tom Robbins headache tape reading The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce. Tom Robbins religious children school 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 intellectual doors book 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 senior office school A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans. Tom Robbins mind writing thinking 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 virginia might ideas Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. Tom Robbins survival evil mean We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. Tom Robbins form language use There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven. Tom Robbins seven existence stories Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s. Tom Robbins paris feelings thinking
