The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts. Tom Robbins More Quotes by Tom Robbins More Quotes From Tom Robbins Toys are made in heaven, batteries are made in hell. Tom Robbins batteries toys heaven I've always assumed that every time a child is born, the Divine reenters the world. Okay? That's the meaning of the Christmas story. And every time that child's purity is corrupted by society, that's the meaning of the Crucifixion story. Your man Jesus stands for that child, that pure spirit, and as its surrogate, he's being born and put to death again and again, over and over, every time we inhale and exhale, not just at the vernal equinox and on the twenty-fifth of December. Tom Robbins men children jesus Fire is the reuniting of matter with oxygen. If one bears that in mind, every blaze may be seen as a reunion, an occasion of chemical joy. Tom Robbins oxygen fire joy But say you've inflated your soul to the size of a beach ball and it's soaking into the Mystery like wine into a mattress. What have you accomplished? Well, long term, you may have prepared yourself for a successful metamorphosis, an almost inconceivable transformation to be precipitated by your death or by some great worldwide eschatological whoopjamboreehoo. You may have. No one can say for sure. Tom Robbins wine successful beach I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life. Tom Robbins sentences writing I think too much is known about me already. I think biographical information can get in the way of the reading experience. The interchange between the reader and the work. For example, I know far too much about Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut. Because I know as much as I do about their personal lives, I can't read their work without this interjecting itself. So if I had it to do over, I'd probably go the way of J.D. Salinger or Thomas Pynchon. And just stay out of it altogether and let all the focus be on the work itself and not on me. Tom Robbins focus reading thinking Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be. Tom Robbins best-place fool writing A Hamburger is warm and fragrant and juicy. A hamburger is soft and nonthreatening. It personifies the Great Mother herself who has nourished us from the beginning. A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes. A hamburger is companionable and faintly erotic. The nipple of the Goddess, the bountiful belly-ball of Eve. You are what you think you eat. Tom Robbins spiritual mother thinking If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we're going to nurture the Earth and protect it and have fun with it and learn from it - which is what mothers do with their children - then we've got to put technology (an aggressive masculine system) in its proper place, which is that of a tool to be used sparingly, joyfully, gently and only in the fullest cooperation with nature. Nature must govern technology, not the other way around. Tom Robbins mother fun children Redheads are said to be children of the moon, thwarted by the sun and addicted to sex and sugar. Tom Robbins moon children sex The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it. Tom Robbins moon natural civilization Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter. Tom Robbins seven sin lust Once, in a spasm of sappiness, you asked Q-Jo if she thought your dreams would ever come true. 'You aren't talking about dreams,' she corrected you, 'you're referring to your pathetic bourgeoisie ambitions. Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true. Tom Robbins ambition dream talking Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating. Tom Robbins common-sense mediocrity mind Life is hard if you think it's hard. Tom Robbins life-is-hard ifs thinking Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if not for no other reason than that most of us find acknowledging the unknowable and monitoring its intrusions upon the familiar and mundane more than a little embarrassing. Tom Robbins psychics data challenges Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem. Tom Robbins cop crime problem Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation. Tom Robbins intellectual responsibility spiritual Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too self important to laugh at their own frequently ridiculous behavior have vested interest in gravity because it supports their illusions of grandosity. Tom Robbins self laughing people Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. Tom Robbins revolver standards evil
