Tom Robbins Quotes

We live in a bewildering world.

Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.

You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things are seldom crystal clear.

Life itself is controversy.

It is most difficult to deal with. There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.

Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus.

The world is full of contradiction.

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply no definitive answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

The Chinese say, 'It's good to live in interesting times.'