Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
THOMAS PYNCHONIlls are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
THOMAS PYNCHONThere is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.
THOMAS PYNCHONThere was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
THOMAS PYNCHONIf 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.
THOMAS PYNCHONShe thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
THOMAS PYNCHONAll 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.
THOMAS PYNCHONLength is usually intensity. Not time.
THOMAS PYNCHONTeamwork,” Koteks snarled, “is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It’s a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.
THOMAS PYNCHONTime is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
THOMAS PYNCHONYou may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
THOMAS PYNCHONThe reality is in this head. Mine. I’m the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.
THOMAS PYNCHONIf they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
THOMAS PYNCHONSome of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
THOMAS PYNCHONThey plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
THOMAS PYNCHONDespair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
THOMAS PYNCHONIdle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
THOMAS PYNCHON