Quotes by Tom Robbins

“Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realised its moral potential and ...”

“Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.”

“If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.”

“Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.”

“You’ve remained on the battleground, center stage, experiencing life and, what’s more important, experiencing yourself experiencing it. You haven't been reduced to a logistical strategy for somebod...”

“In order to tame death, they refuse to completely enjoy life. In rejecting complete enjoyment, they are half-dead in advance - and that with no guarantee that their sacrifice will actually benefit ...”

“The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.”

“Besides, if I am truly immortal, I am my own grandchild, my own descendant, my own dynasty. I am not obliged to live on through what I pass down to others.”

“But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.”

“They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning.”

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love.”