What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. -Tom Robbins Funny
The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.' -Tom Robbins Imagination
I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me. -Tom Robbins Morning
To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen. -Tom Robbins Change
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -Tom Robbins Business
I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe. -Tom Robbins Romantic
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. -Tom Robbins Wisdom
The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom. -Tom Robbins Freedom
Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. -Tom Robbins Life
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -Tom Robbins Government
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. -Tom Robbins Equality
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. -Tom Robbins Humor
In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. -Tom Robbins Death
The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce. -Tom Robbins Fear
