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Tom Robbins Quotes

American - Author | July 22, 1936 -

The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.

Sky Color Pajamas Edgar Poe

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

Education Growth Fulfillment

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.

Morning Beach Me Writing Looking Go

When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself.

Life Summer Go Lazy Kind Shore

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.

Fear Truth Children Training Doing

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

Child Mind Rest Living Existence

I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.

I Am Happy You Know Cheerful Am

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

You Find Out Typewriter Who

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

Business Soul Government Magic Poor

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

Worth Living Nothing Worth Living

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

Religion Masses Opium Merely

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

Grow You Stop Growing Mean Grow Up

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