Thomas Pynchon Quotes

These signs are real. They are also symptoms of a process. The process follows the same form, the sa...

The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or o...

Could he have been the fork in the road American never took, the singular point she jumped the wrong...

The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound dra...

In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental h...

Shit, money, and the World, the three American truths, powering the American mobility, claimed the S...

Sometimes, down in the subway, a train Maxine's riding on will slowly be overtaken by a local or an ...

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

Beneath the rubato of the day abided a stern pulse beating on, ineluctable, unforgiving, whereby wha...

One glance at any government budget anywhere in the world tells the story—the money is always in pla...

Displaced Person’s SongIf you see a train this evening,Far away, against the sky,Lie down in your wo...

The Doper's DreamLast night I dreamed I was plugged right inTo a bubblin' hookah so high,When all of...

Can't say it often enough - change your hair, change your life.

The film libraries on some of these channels." Elmina said. "I swear. There was one on last night. I...

It had been dark at the beach for hours, he hadn't been smoking much and it wasn't headlights – but ...

It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Geor...

These times are unfriendly toward Worlds alternative to this one

But as we all know, rock ‘n’ roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, keep...

Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlie...

It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to f...

What I mean is something like a closed circuit. Everybody on the same frequency. And after a while y...

As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.

She had heard all about excluded middles; they were bad shit, to be avoided; and how had it ever hap...

You’re chicken, she told herself, snapping her seat belt. This is America, you live in it, you let i...

Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket, sneakers and big cowboy hat, ...

So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with bea...

For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inesca...

So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with bea...

So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with bea...

A swaddled silence would be over the island, nights like that: if they complained, or had to cry for...

Every night is Christmas Eve on old East Main,Sailors and their sweethearts all agree.Neon signs of ...

You felt she'd done a thousand secret things to her eyes. They needed no haze of cigarette smoke to ...

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

You're the medium Weed and I use to communicate, that's all, this set of holes, pleasantly framed, t...

If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about a...

the only way clear of the cool/crazy flipflop was obviously slow, frustrating and hard work. Love wi...

The Northern powers are more like administrators, who manipulate other people’s history but produce ...

Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and government...

The grandeur of space, dig it. Zillions of stars, each one gets its own pixel.”“Awesome.”“Maybe, but...

Only the framing material," Lucas demurely, "obvious influences, Neo-Tokyo from Akira, Ghost in the ...

The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everything’s on its head, it’s a Twelfth Night ...

And what we’ve been always been is…?”“Is living on borrowed time. Never caring about who’s paying fo...

When the earliest Vikings started moving into the northern oceans, there’s one story about finding t...

Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in t...

Look at it, every day more lusers than users, keyboards and screens turning into nothin but portals ...

As if somehow irony,” she recaps for Maxine, “as practiced by a giggling mincing fifth column, actua...

It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the peo...

They're in love. Fuck the war.

The dying tapers off now and then, but the War is still killing lots and lots of people. Only right ...

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.

Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled...

The big scandal around IG Farben this week is the unlucky subsidiary Spottbilligfilm AG, whose entir...

It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someda...

It appears that some part of Slothrop ran into the AWOL Džabajev one night in the heart of downtown ...

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

They have lied to us. They can't keep us from dying, so They lie to us about death. A cooperative st...

But in the dynamic space of the living Rocket, the double integral has a different meaning. To integ...

Why will the Structure allow every other kind of sexual behavior but that one? Because submission an...

They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.

And one cried wee, wee, wee, all the way—" Jessica breaking down in a giggle as he reaches for the s...

Nobody wanted to hear about all the Preterite, the many God passes over when he chooses a few for sa...

One by one they are being picked off around him: in his small circle of colleagues the ratio slowly ...

Sometimes things aren't very clear, that's all. Things look like they're going against us, and thoug...

The moment of assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come together, with ...

There are two more turds, smaller ones, and when he has eaten these, residual shit to lick out of he...

I don't do lunch. Corrupt artifact of late capitalism. Breakfast maybe?

Yep, and your Internet was their invention, this magical convenience that creeps now like a smell th...

There are places we fear, places we dream, places whose exiles we became and never learned it until,...

Why should things be easy to understand?

But in the dynamic space of the living Rocket , the double integral has a different meaning. To inte...

This generation - it's almost a religious thing now. The millennium, the end days, no need to be res...

There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia...