Tom Robbins Quotes

You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.

There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.

I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.

The American people don't believe politicians. They don't believe business leaders or Hollywood celebrities or athletes or other supposed role models. And they certainly don't believe the news media.

There is nothing in the world that you can put your faith, your trust, or your belief in. Neither your gods, nor your science can save you, can bring you psychological certainty; and you have to accept that you can trust in absolutely nothing. That is a scientific fact, as well as a psychological fact. Because, your leaders—religious and political—and your books—sacred and profane—have all failed, and you are still confused, in misery, in conflict. So, that is an absolute, undeniable fact.

Carefully take notice of witches, charmers, and all such abusers of the people.

Some superstition … prevented even the children from eating the myriads of blackberries which ripened on the bushes .

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

From my own kind I only learn How foolish comfort is

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

Often what passes for faith in this world is little more than gullibility.

Nothing undermines faith in our political system than politicians going back on their word.

If you hang around politics long enough, you tend to get disappointed by people.

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?

We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.

I smiled. She smiled. I believed the smile.

We should view our government the way we should a friendly, cuddly lion. Just because he's friendly and cuddly shouldn't blind us to the fact that he's still got teeth and claws.

We lost faith in authority in the '50s, up to a point, and we spawned a lot of anti-heroes in movies, which were refreshing and open. But at this point, with the distrust that's there and the disillusionment with leadership that is so acute, we need some kind of a focus on taking the irony out and taking the anti-hero element away.

We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.

People felt like they were friends with Google, and they believed in the "Do No Evil" thing that Google said. They trusted Google more than they trusted the government, and I never understood that.

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.