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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. "

Tom Robbins

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" Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though it cannot be solved - is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine. "

" The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being. "

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

" In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury. "

" We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. "

" Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. "

" 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?' "

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

" 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. "

" My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy. "

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

" The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.' "

" Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language. "

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

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

" Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. "

" We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. "

" Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. "

" The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom. "

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