All Thomas Pynchon Quotes
- If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. Answers
- Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more! Author
- If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer… Computer
- Liebig himself seems to have occupied the role of a gate, or sorting-demon, such as his younger contemporary Clerk Maxwell once proposed, helping to concentrate… Clerk
- Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together. All
- The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will. Afraid
- My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists ... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters'. Belief
- Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem ... Brash
- Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed. Funny
- Can't say it often enough—change your hair, change your life. Change
- Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page. Character
- For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross Cross
- Our history is an aggregate of last moments Aggregate
- She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. Cornell
- Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But… All
- MARG: You are so close.STEN: To whom? Margravine, not even to himself. This place, this island: all his life he's done nothing but hop from… Agents
- Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do. Dream
- Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read. Along
- Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you. Book
- Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care. Ass
- What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned? Age
- You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m… All
- Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines. All
- The anarchist is dressed all in black. In the dark you can only see his eyes. It dates from the 1930's. Porky Pig is a… All
- the one Word that rips apart the day... Apart