Tom Robbins Quotes

You aren't going to leave me alone are you?

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome.

I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.

When I was on the swim team as a kid, I used to hide out from my coach by going into the bathroom and hiding out in one of the stalls. And I would literally wrap myself in toilet paper so as not to get hypothermia.

I spent much of my life hiding.

I'll close my eyes really, really tight and make you all go away.

My day is spent hiding from people.

I am always running away from something.

Omygod, I haven’t got years. I’ll have to hide in the Bat Cave.” “Once you go to the Bat Cave it’s forever, babe.” Eeek.

No one really has the power, and everybody's trying to get through the day, and everybody's nervous and desperate.

Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.

By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.

Hiding under the bed doesn't make the worry stop.

Oh, no, I was afraid of that! I'd better go and hide.

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

I tried to tell them that things would be okay, but I didn't believe it.

A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety

Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.

I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.

That which one fears becomes one's master.

Galladon paused for a moment, then laughed. "Does nothing frighten you, sule?" "Actually, pretty much everything here does—I'm just good at ignoring the fact that I'm terrified. If I ever realize how scared I am, you'll probably find me trying to hide under those cobblestones over there.

I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again; it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.