Tom Robbins Quotes

Things always happen in series.

What happened yesterday affects today; what happens today will affect tomorrow/

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second incident, and so forth until the end.

Events do not really have beginnings or ends. Behind every event is the previous one, causing, or helping to cause, what follows.

Things just always seem to lead to the logical next step.

One thing can make many other things happen.

After was better. Before was only there so After could happen.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.

Everything is a reaction.

I believe that everything we think and feel and do produces a result and that we have to deal with that result - that result is then something that produces another result, so on and so forth, so yes, I do believe in causality.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.

You cannot go through life without cause and effect.

It's kind of crazy how one thing can lead to another if you keep your eyes open to it.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

For one change always leaves a dovetail into which another will fit.

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.