J. Robbins Quotes
A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.
What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was.
Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.
The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.
When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come.
You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has he placed you?
Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin.
Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.
The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure)
When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.
Leave it to a naive world-saver like you to view our love as a Sacred Cause when in actual fact all it was was some barking at the moon.
Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.
Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the "end times," but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years.
I never outline. I don't work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds of the way through, I don't know how it's going to end.
I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.
If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.
Jackson Pollock said once, "I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive." He said, "That's why I like you, Tom. You're alive."
I don't want to give the impression that I hold daily conversations with my household appliances, although my toaster is as old as Drew Barrymore and almost as talented.
I have never ever Googled myself, in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.
I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic.
Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent.
The truth, from my perspective, is that the world, indeed, is ending - and is also being reborn. It's been doing that all day, every day, forever.
When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.
It's not just getting a goal that matters, but the quality of life you experience along the way.
The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.
The scary truth is 96 percent of mutual funds fail to match the market, and the 4 percent that do, they're always changing.
If you pursue enrichment and growth, you must increase your references by pursuing ideas and experiences that wouldn't be a part of your life if you didn't consciously seek them out.
If you do extreme exercise to lose weight, you'll usually soon stop because you get injured or because it's simply too rigorous to do for a lifetime.
Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.
If you want to look for obstacles, what's wrong is always available. But so is what's right!
The world we live in is the world we choose to live in, whether consciously or unconsciously. If we choose bliss, that's what we get. If we choose misery, we get that, too.
The first thing these people have who succeed, who are fulfilled, is that they’ve decided what the purpose of the game is, at least for right now.
Always remember that you are bigger than the moment, you are more than anything that could ever happen to you.
Well, I'd love to make a decision like that, but I'm not sure how I could change my life.
