I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic. Tom Robbins More Quotes by Tom Robbins More Quotes From Tom Robbins Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes time to stand still, lust kills time, which is not to say that it wastes it or whiles it aimlessly away but rather that it annihilates it, cancels it, extirpates it from continuum; preventing, while lasts, any lapse into the tense and shabby woes of temporal society, lust is the thousand-pound odometer needle on the dashboard of the absolute. Tom Robbins tracklustworld There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims. Tom Robbins still-life-with-woodpeckerpeopleway When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free. Tom Robbins still-life-with-woodpeckerlibertarian-partylibertarian To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding the soul. These things can enlarge the soul: laughter, danger, imagination, meditation, wild nature, passion, compassion, psychedelics, beauty, iconoclasm, and driving around in the rain with the top down. These things can diminish it: fear, bitterness, blandness, trendiness, egotism, violence, corruption, ignorance, grasping, shining, and eating ketchup on cottage cheese. Tom Robbins laughterignorancerain She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang. Tom Robbins phoneshumorousgod You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has he placed you? Tom Robbins humorousprayergod America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn't that fabulous? Tom Robbins humorousfunnyamerica White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies. Tom Robbins guncitiesfear Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters. Tom Robbins weddinglaughterlove When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come. Tom Robbins halfwayforestsanimal We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we've forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That's why poets are such important members of society. Poets remember our dreams for us. Tom Robbins dreammorningnight When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned. When a man tries to own an individual, whether that individual be another man, an animal or even a tree, he suffers the psychic consequences of an unnatural act. Tom Robbins psychicsanimalmen The odor of frying bacon, sausage links, and ham tiptoed on little pig feet all the way to the north end of the second floor. Inevitably, the odor made her simultaneously ravenous and nauseated. She hated the sensation. It reminded her of pregnancy. Every Sunday morning, Leigh-Cheri awoke to a pan of fried fear. Tom Robbins fearmorningpregnancy The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human. Tom Robbins scientisthonestscience You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well Tom Robbins sickinspirationpeople Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich. Tom Robbins richmoneyfunny When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens. Tom Robbins swanskillingart Success can eliminate as many options as failure. Tom Robbins success-failuresuccess Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened! Tom Robbins intimacysugarlife-is If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked. Tom Robbins finding-yourselfirontwo
