Tom Robbins Quotes

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

It's still my happiest time when I'm eating.

I don't know if I've ever derived such an immediate sense of calm and well-being from any book as I did from 'Right Ho, Jeeves.' It was like I was Pac-Man and the book was a power-up.

I get way too much happiness from good food.

If I couldn't use food or love to define contentment, I would use reading.

When the car's going well, I purr like a kitten.

There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.

Smell the roses. Smell the coffee. Whatever it is that makes you happy.

Nothing chills out the soul like the comfort of tea and a potato.

They say people live to be happy. If you actually think about what happiness is, it's nothing much. When you get to eat ramen after feeling really, really hungry, that's happiness.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple - love, sex and food!

Life is good when you have a good sandwich.

Don't confuse comfort with happiness.

I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

We got everythin' we need here. We got Baileys, creamy, and, um... everythin' good. I'll get ya another Baileys

Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I’m a happy man.

Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.

It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining.

I am grateful for what I call well-spent moments: Making a tuna fish sandwich with the works. Taking at least a half hour to eat it outside. Ironing my vintage tea towels while watching old black-and-white film noir movies and sipping one martini with extra olives - a quirky combination, but it works.

After a full belly all is poetry.

Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.