Tom Robbins Quotes About Literature
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Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.
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There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers.
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Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more.
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This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to be better people came to be acknowledge, if not thoroughly understood, by a significantly large minority.
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A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans.
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If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when you think you are mastering them - it is nonetheless perpetually fascinating, frequently surprising, occasionally rewarding, and it comes already assembled. [...] Alas! the brain is a toy that plays games of its own. Its very most favorite game is the one-thing-leads-to-another game.
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'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.
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We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
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When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.
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