Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.

Tom Robbins

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

Tom Robbins

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Tom Robbins

How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

Tom Robbins

People are never perfect, but love can be.

Tom Robbins

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Tom Robbins

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

Tom Robbins

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

Tom Robbins

You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.

Tom Robbins

The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.

Tom Robbins

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Tom Robbins

There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum.

Tom Robbins