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" True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. "

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" 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. "

Tom Robbins

Children

Fear

Truth

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

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

" If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it. "

" Most novelists write about twisted lives. "

" To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. "

" 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. "

" I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India. "

Tom Robbins

Will

India

" In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. "

" 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. "

" Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels. "

" I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe. "

" 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. "

Tom Robbins

Morning

Looking

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

" I'm not infatuated with frivolousness. We're just good friends. "

" A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. "

" I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic. "

" Education is for growth and fulfillment. "

" I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. "

" To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen. "

" In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. "

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

" If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies. "

" 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 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

Chosen

Entertain