“ His workplace has become a rat’s nest of empire building, turf defense, careerism, backstabbing, betrayal, and snitchcraft. Thomas Pynchon
“ His life had been tied to the past. He’d seen himself a point on a moving wavefront, propagating through sterile history—a known past, a projectable future. But Jessica was the breaking of the wave. S… Thomas Pynchon
“ His five feet three rested angular on the folding chair, a body small, well-wrought and somehow precious, as if it were the forgotten creation of any goldsmith—even Cellini—shrouded now in dark serge… Thomas Pynchon
“ He sat forlorn, feeling as if that most feared enemy of sleep had entered silently on a busy night, the one person whom you must come face to face with someday, who asks you, in the earshot of your ol… Thomas Pynchon
“ Gustav is a composer. For months he has been carrying on a raging debate with Säure over who is better, Beethoven or Rossini. Säure is for Rossini. I’m not so much for Beethoven qua Beethoven, Gustav… Thomas Pynchon
“ Fuck you, whispers Slothrop. It’s the only spell he knows, and a pretty good all-purpose one at that. Thomas Pynchon
“ Former and future nerdistocracy slowly, and to look at them you’d think reluctantly, filtering back out into the street, into the long September which has been with them in a virtual way since spring… Thomas Pynchon
“ For a moment she'd wondered if the seal around her sockets were tight enough to allow the tears simply to go on and fill up the entire lens space and never dry. She could carry the sadness of the mome… Thomas Pynchon
“ First time they met was on a cruise, if you think of cruise in maybe more of a specialized way. In the wake of her separation, back in what still isn’t quite The Day, from her then husband, Horst Loef… Thomas Pynchon
“ Easy. They just let us forget. Give us too much to process, fill up every minute, keep us distracted, it's what the Tube is for, and though it kills me to say it, it's what rock and roll is becoming -… Thomas Pynchon
“ Damn you all. You have no idea what you're heading into. This world you take to be 'the' world will die, and descend into Hell, and all history after that will belong properly to the history of Hell. Thomas Pynchon
“ Consider, replies the Geomancer, — Adam and Eve ate fruit from a Tree, and were enlighten’d. The Buddha sat beneath a Tree, and he was enlighten’d. Newton, also sitting beneath a Tree, was hit by a fa… Thomas Pynchon
“ At the corner store they invaded a hot dog stand and drank pina colada to sober up. It did no good. Thomas Pynchon
“ Astronomy is as soil'd at the hands of the Pelhamites as ev'ry other Business in this Kingdom,— and we ever at the mercy of Place-jobbery, as much as any Nincompoop at Court. Thomas Pynchon
“ All this home-computer gaming, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, now this Xbox thing, maybe I just want the boys to see what blowing aliens away was like in the olden days. Thomas Pynchon
“ Ah, I understand, murmured the imperial scapegrace. Turning to the room: When Franz Ferdinand drinks, he cried, everybody drinks!Which helped restore a level of civility in the room, and soon even of… Thomas Pynchon
“ After the 11 September attack, March editorializes one morning, amid all that chaos and confusion, a hole quietly opened up in American history, a vacuum of accountability, into which assets human and… Thomas Pynchon
“ Trying not to get emotional but still hanging on the rearview mirror's single tale of recedings and vanishing points as we hang on looks our lovers give. Thomas Pynchon
