Quotes by Tom Robbins

• Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
• We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
• We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
• True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.
• To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
• To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
• The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
• The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.
• When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.
• People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
• In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
• If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
• If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
• I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.
• 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.
• Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.
• Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.
• Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
• There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
• Our similarities bring us to a common ground; our differences allow us to be fascinated by one another.
• Life is a like listing a constant low-grade caffeine.
• Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is laugh at the chaos.