“ There is also the story about Tyrone Slothrop, who was sent into the Zone to be present as his own assembley--perhaps heavily paranoid voices whisper, 'his time's assembley'--and there ought to be a p… Thomas Pynchon
“ The Purveyor of Delusion confers upon his wife a certain expression or twist of Phiz I daresay as old as Holy Scripture,— a lengthy range of Sentiment, all comprest into a single melancholick swing of… Thomas Pynchon
“ Street cred. Anybody who got in before ’97 is considered OK – from ’97 to 2000 it can go either way, maybe they’re not not always cool, but usually they’re not quite the kind of full-service dickhead… Thomas Pynchon
“ Later they went outside, where a light rain was blowing in, mixed with salt spray feathering off the surf. Shasta wandered slowly down to the beach and through the wet sand, her nape in a curve she ha… Thomas Pynchon
“ It was as if she had just discovered the irreversible process. It astonished her to think that so much could be lost, even the quantity of hallucination belonging just to the sailor that the world wou… Thomas Pynchon
“ It is part, Rollo writes home to the elder Dr. Groast in Lancashire, in elaborate revenge for childhood tales of Jenny Greenteeth waiting out in the fens to drown him, part of an old and clandestine d… Thomas Pynchon
“ If you look from the side at a planet swinging around in its orbit, split the sun with a mirror and imagine a string, it all looks like a yo-yo. The point furthest from the sun is called aphelion. The… Thomas Pynchon
“ Hey. Nobody has any trouble believing in the internet, right, which really is magic. So what's the problem believing in a virtual private network for Santa's business? It results in real toys, real pr… Thomas Pynchon
“ He shared his place with a Dr. Tubeside, whose practice consisted largely of injecting people with vitamin B12, a euphemism for the physician's own blend of amphetamines. Today, early as it was, Doc s… Thomas Pynchon
“ As ever, he is surpriz'd by the fierceness of their bodies, their inability to hold back, the purity of the not-yet-dishonest,— 'twould take a harder Case than Mason not to struggle with Tears of Sent… Thomas Pynchon
“ After that long of more named pavements than he’d care to count, Profane had grown a little leery of streets, especially streets like this. They had in fact all fused into a single abstracted Street,… Thomas Pynchon
“ A phrase (it often happened when he was exhausted) kept cycling round and round, preconsicously, just under the threshold of lip and tongue movement: Events seem to be ordered into an ominous logic. I… Thomas Pynchon
“ That's what Jesus meant, whispers the ghost of Slothrop's first American ancestor William, venturing out on the Sea of Galilee. He saw it from the lemming point of view. Without the millions who had p… Thomas Pynchon
“ Culture attracts the worst impulses of the moneyed, it has no honor, it begs to be suburbanized and corrupted. Thomas Pynchon
“ Yep, and your Internet was their invention, this magical convenience that creeps now like a smell through the smallest details of our lives, the shopping, the housework, the homework, the taxes, absor… Thomas Pynchon
“ These signs are real. They are also symptoms of a process. The process follows the same form, the same structure. To apprehend it you will follow the signs. All talk of cause and effect is secular his… Thomas Pynchon
“ You’re chicken, she told herself, snapping her seat belt. This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl. Thomas Pynchon
