Tom Robbins: Trending quotes (page 8)

“Every day is Judgement Day. Always has been. Always will be.”

“I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.”

“…to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.”

“It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.”

“Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.”

“I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.”

“Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.”

“Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passionthe woods.”

“He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.”

“Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.”

“In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.”

“At birth, we emerge from dream soup.
At death, we sink back into dream soup.
In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land.
Life is a portage.”

“The more advertising I see, the less I want to buy.”

“I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they prefer it over and above their friends and loved ones, although I am inclined to doubt that be the case.”

“His voice wore no pants.”

“Summer had come to sit on New York's face.”

“Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.”

“Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going”

“The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.”