All Thomas Pynchon Quotes
- 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
- It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home.… Aggregate
- A screaming comes across the sky. Across
- The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is… Act
- Why should things be easy to understand? Easy
- He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their hunger lost somewhere… Among
- Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to. Civilians
- Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think… Earlier
- It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform… Abstract
- I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry… Apart
- In recent weeks, in true messianic style, it has come clear to her that her real identity is literally, the force of gravity. I am… Clear
- Darkness invades the dreams of the glassblower. Of all the unpleasantries his dreams grab in out of the night air, an extinguished light is the… Air
- There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from… All
- There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist. Inspirational
- So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified… Addicted
- So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of… Amnesiac