Tom Robbins

“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.”

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

“Most novelists write about twisted lives.”

“Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.”

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

“To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.”

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

“Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.”

“In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.”

“If little else, the brain is an educational toy.”

“At the typewriter you find out who you are.”

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

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