Play | Topics | Authors | Random

Danh ngôn của Tom Robbins (Sứ mệnh: 1)

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
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.