Tom Robbins Quotes

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

Well, I have never, ever Googled myself.

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

Reality is contradictory. And it’s paradoxical.

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 went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors.

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

A child’s mind is its living room; it’s is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.