“Our Similarities bring us to a common ground; Our Differences allow us to be fascinated by each other”

Tom Robbins

“There is no such thing as a weird human being.
It's just that some people require more understanding than others”

Tom Robbins

love it

Hahahaha!!!!!!!!! Isn't he just so very perfect?

“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.”

Tom Robbins

"Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked."

Tom Robbins

"Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown.
Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue.
As blue as indigo.
And you know what that means.
Indigo.
Indigoing.
Indigone."

Tom Robbins

"Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another."

Tom Robbins



I love this one!!!

"Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place.
Consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously."

Tom Robbins

Wow, I love this one too! Had it with my last bf, but unfortunately it wasn't meant to last.

"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."


Tom Robbins

"The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe.
Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.
When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself.
You get to take yourself oh so very seriously."

— Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume)

"Our individuality is all, all, that we have.
There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route."

— Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume)

"Are You Ready for New Urban Fragrances?

Yeah, I guess I'm ready, but listen:

Perfume is a disguise. Since the middle ages, we have worn masks of fruit and flowers in order to conceal from ourselves the meaty essence of our humanity. We appreciate the sexual attractant of the rose, the ripeness of the orange, more than we honor our own ripe carnality.

Now today we want to perfume our cities, as well; to replace their stinging fumes of disturbed fossils' sleep with the scent of gardens and orchards. Yet, humans are not bees any more than they are blossoms. If we must pull an olfactory hood over our urban environment, let it be of a different nature.

I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes.

I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets.

Under the pressure of my step, I want the streets to emit the precise odor of a diamond necklace.

I want the newspapers I read to smell like the violins left in pawnshops by weeping hobos on Christmas Eve.

I want to carry luggage that reeks of the neurons in Einstein's brain.

I want a city's gases to smell like the golden belly hairs of the gods.

And when I gaze at a televised picture of the moon, I want to detect, from a distance of 239,000 miles, the aroma of fresh mozzarella."

— Tom Robbins (Wild Ducks Flying Backward)

"You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked?
Have you risked disapproval?
Have you ever risked economic security?
Have you ever risked a belief?
I see nothing particularly courageous about risking one's life. So you lose it, you go to your hero's heaven and everything is milk and honey 'til the end of time. Right? You get your reward and suffer no earthly consequences.
That's not courage.
Real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness.
Real courage is risking one's clichés."

— Tom Robbins (Another Roadside Attraction)

"How can one person be more real than any other?
Well, some people do hide and others seek.
Maybe those who are in hiding - escaping encounters, avoiding surprises, protecting their property, ignoring their fantasies, restricting their feelings, sitting out the pan pipe hootchy-kootch of experience - maybe those people, people who won't talk to rednecks, or if they're rednecks won't talk to intellectuals, people who're afraid to get their shoes muddy or their noses wet, afraid to eat what they crave, afraid to drink Mexican water, afraid to bet a long shot to win, afraid to hitchhike, jaywalk, honky-tonk, cogitate, osculate, levitate, rock it, bop it, sock it, or bark at the moon, maybe such people are simply inauthentic, and maybe the jacklet humanist who says differently is due to have his tongue fried on the hot slabs of Liar's Hell.
Some folks hide, and some folk's seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding.
But there are folks who want to know and aren't afraid to look and won't turn tail should they find it - and if they never do, they'll have a good time anyway because nothing, neither the terrible truth nor the absence of it, is going to cheat them out of one honest breath of Earth's sweet gas."

— Tom Robbins (Still Life with Woodpecker)

YES!!!!!!!

"Does koala bear poop smell like cough drops?"

— Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume)

"Among our egocentric sad-sacks, despair is as addictive as heroin and more popular than sex, for the single reason that when one is unhappy one gets to pay a lot of attention to oneself.
Misery becomes a kind of emotional masturbation."

— Tom Robbins (Wild Ducks Flying Backward)

I like these Tom Robbins qoutes.

He's my new hero...

I've just purchased a heap of books off ebay, and am awaiting the post impatiently...