Thomas Pynchon: Trending quotes (page 3)

“Shall I project a world?”

“Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.”

“All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.”

“What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song.”

“You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.”

“There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.”

“If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.”

“It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.”

“What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.”

“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.”

“Danger's over, Banana Breakfast is saved.”

“Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.”

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

“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 if he'd known the best moment to let go.”

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

“Next worst thing to unrequited Love, isn't it? Insufficient hate.”

“What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?”

“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 to it.”

“Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.”