Tom Robbins Quotes

I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: 'Is this random, or is there something working underneath?'

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.

There is always room for coincidence.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

I don't believe in coincidence.

Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.

Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.

The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.

Every single moment is a coincidence.

It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.

So much in politics is luck and timing.

Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.

You may call it coalition, you may call it the accidental and fortuitous concurrence of atoms.

Given the infinite number of coincidences that could happen, very few ever actually do. The universe exists in a coincidence-hating state of anti-fluke.

Sometimes you are lucky, sometimes you're unlucky. It all weighs out at the end. That is my experience at least.