Quote

The Japanese have become so smitten with the Western condiment - its texture as silky as a kimono, its tang as understated as the tang of Zen - that today they have a word for mayonnaise junkie: mayora.

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
Become
Junkie
Kimono
Today
Texture
Kimonos
Japanese
Silky
Japan
Tang
Humorous
Condiments
Western
Mayonnaise
Word
Understated
Funny
Smitten
Condiment

More quotes by Tom Robbins

Image
Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.
Tom Robbins
Image
John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'
Tom Robbins
Image
Dreamily the Princess stood up. I'm not sure if I can walk, she said. Then I'll carry you. Is that what love is? I no longer know what love is. A week ago I had a lot of ideas. What love is and how to make it stay. Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject.
Tom Robbins
Image
Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets.
Tom Robbins
Image
Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.
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
At the typewriter you find out who you are.
Tom Robbins
Image
I'll bet I'm as old as you are. I'm older than Sanskrit. Well, I was waitress at the Last Supper. I'm so old I remember when McDonald's had only sold a hundred burgers. You win.
Tom Robbins
Image
Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide.
Tom Robbins
Image
Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love.
Tom Robbins
Image
The goal of this generation's pioneers should be to restrict procreation and limit consumption. They should also take every opportunity to make themselves happy, realizing that the key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.
Tom Robbins
Image
…he glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if she were a lost continent about to be rediscovered.
Tom Robbins
Image
The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous in short, the kind of women I admire in real life.
Tom Robbins
Image
You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well
Tom Robbins
Image
Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others, such as Kudra, seek to pry the lid off and hop out.
Tom Robbins
Image
That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence.
Tom Robbins
Image
Once one pays some attention to something, then you begin to see evidence of it everywhere.
Tom Robbins
Image
A spirit cannot soar with only one wing.
Tom Robbins
Image
I don't have a very high opinion, actually, of the world of criticism - or the practice of criticism. I think I admire art criticism, criticism of painting and sculpture, far more than I do that of say films and books, literary or film criticism. But I don't much like the practice. I think there are an awful lot of bad people in it.
Tom Robbins
Image
You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing.
Tom Robbins