Quotes by Thomas Pynchon

“The Northern powers are more like administrators, who manipulate other peoples history but produce none of their own. They are the stock-jobbers of history, lives are their units of exchange. Lives...”

“The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everythings on its head, its a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction”

“For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one another, to indulge in being simply and purely young, to share...”

“These signs are real. They are also symptoms of a process. The process follows the same form, the same structure. To apprehend it you will follow the signs. All talk of cause and effect is secular ...”

“But in the dynamic space of the living Rocket , the double integral has a different meaning. To integrate here is to operate on a rate of change so that time falls away: change is stilled...'Meters...”

“But in the dynamic space of the living Rocket, the double integral has a different meaning. To integrate here is to operate on a rate of change so that time falls away: change is stilled..."Meters ...”

“It appears that some part of Slothrop ran into the AWOL Dabajev one night in the heart of downtown Niederschaumdorf. (Some believe that fragments of Slothrop have grown into consistent personae of ...”

“Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket, sneakers and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia. Given to sentimental impulses, he thought he'd look i...”

“Every night is Christmas Eve on old East Main,Sailors and their sweethearts all agree.Neon signs of red and greenShine upon the friendly scene,Welcoming you in from off the sea.Santa's bag is fille...”

“In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing?”

“So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with beard measured in light-years and nebulae for sandals, Faust's kind (poets) are alone with the task ...”

“There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt to make sense of what has not.”

“You're the medium Weed and I use to communicate, that's all, this set of holes, pleasantly framed, this little femme scampering back and forth with scented messages tucked in her little secret plac...”

“And what weve been always been is?Is living on borrowed time. Never caring about whos paying for it, whos starving somewhere else all jammed together so we can have cheap food, a house, a yard in t...”

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

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

“the only way clear of the cool/crazy flipflop was obviously slow, frustrating and hard work. Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care. He mig...”

“A swaddled silence would be over the island, nights like that: if they complained, or had to cry for some lesion or cramp, it was baffled by the thick mists and all you heard was the tide, slapping...”

“Look at it, every day more lusers than users, keyboards and screens turning into nothin but portals to Web sites for what Management wants everybody addicted to, shopping games, jerking off, stream...”

“When the earliest Vikings started moving into the northern oceans, theres one story about finding this huge fuckin opening at the top of the world, this deep whirlpool thatd take you down and in, l...”