Tom Robbins

If you want to change the world, change yourself.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

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.

A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans.

Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.

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

Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.

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.

I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'

I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.