Quote

Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

Tom Robbins

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
Author
Autobiographer
Biographer
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Blowing Rock
North Carolina
Thomas Eugene Robbins
Ego
Meditation
Bigs
Erases
Mind
Brittle
Dissolves
Throws
Erase
Ass

More quotes by Tom Robbins

Image
I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.
Tom Robbins
Image
I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had done a great deal of reading. I suppose I was more at home in Greenwich Village than, say, any of classmates from Warsaw High School. But in any case, it was an overwhelming experience for me. It took me some time to begin to assimilate it.
Tom Robbins
Image
The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.
Tom Robbins
Image
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?
Tom Robbins
Image
The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.
Tom Robbins
Image
I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.
Tom Robbins
Image
Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself!
Tom Robbins
Image
A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.
Tom Robbins
Image
When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.
Tom Robbins
Image
Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.
Tom Robbins
Image
Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.
Tom Robbins
Image
Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.
Tom Robbins
Image
A child's mind is its living room it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.
Tom Robbins
Image
Peeple of zee wurl, relax
Tom Robbins
Image
I travel in gardens and bedrooms, basements and attics, around corners, through doorways and windows, along sidewalks, over carpets, down drainpipes, in the sky, with friends, lovers, children and heros perceived, remembered, imagined, distorted and clarified.
Tom Robbins
Image
Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.
Tom Robbins
Image
One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires.
Tom Robbins
Image
Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.
Tom Robbins
Image
Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.
Tom Robbins
Image
Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it all, and maybe those who demand financial compensation for offense ought to have it ended for them.
Tom Robbins