Quotes by Tom Robbins

...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.. (Tom Robbins)

Actually, there are countless ways to live upon this tremorous sphere in mirth and good health, and probably only one way - the industrial, urbanized, herding way - to live here stupidly, and man has hit upon that one way. (Tom Robbins)

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. (Tom Robbins)

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. (Tom Robbins)

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. (Tom Robbins)

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. (Tom Robbins)

If by the last quarter of the twentiesth century godliness wasn't next to something a little more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness. (Tom Robbins)

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it. (Tom Robbins)

If little else, the brain is an educational toy. (Tom Robbins)

If the world gets any smaller Ill end up living next door to myself. (Tom Robbins)