All Thomas Pynchon Quotes
- This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway? Funny
- What’s this? What are the antagonists doing here – infiltrating their own audience? Well, they’re not really. It’s somebody else’s audience at the moment, and… Antagonist
- But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish… Affliction
- Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished… Anyone
- My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door. Declares
- She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws… Abolish
- Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs. Abuse
- Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter,… Another Lover
- [Oedipa Maas] awoke at last to find herself getting laid. Awoke
- What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? --Gravity's Rainbow, V699 Body
- Shall I project a world? Inspirational
- But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn't felt it go away, as… Best
- But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice -- guessed and refused… Bad
- But on the way home tonight, you wish you'd picked him up, held him a bit. Just held him, very close to your heart, his… Bit
- We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present-your future-a time of worldwide famine, exhausted fuel supplies, terminal poverty-the end of the… Among
- Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left… Abandon
- You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures. Creatures
- It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads. All
- I came," she said, "hoping you could talk me out of a fantasy." Cherish it!" cried Hilarious, fiercely. "What else do any of you have?… Any
- Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength. Inspirational