Tom Robbins

There are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.

They'd be no threat to me. I have a black belt in Haiku. And a black vest in the cleaners.

She tried out the chamber pot, although she really had nothing to contribute.

If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.

Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for.

Fire is the reuniting of matter with oxygen. If one bears that in mind, every blaze may be seen as a reunion, an occasion of chemical joy.

If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we're going to nurture the Earth and protect it and have fun with it and learn from it — which is what mothers do with their children — then we've got to put technology (an aggressive masculine system) in its proper place, which is that of a tool to be used sparingly, joyfully, gently and only in the fullest cooperation with nature. Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.

Love is dope, not chicken soup.