Tom Robbins Quotes

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

I'm trying to cut down my cursing.

I don't condone bad language.

I probably shouldn't curse as much as I do.

If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.

I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words.

I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective when it's dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.

I'm not any good at foul language or anything like that.

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but... I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, 'Why have we gone there?' It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap. It's so easy.

I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.

The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.