Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
THOMAS PYNCHONThrough the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
THOMAS PYNCHONTime is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
THOMAS PYNCHONI was dreaming about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.
THOMAS PYNCHONIf patterns of ones and zeros were ‘like’ patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
THOMAS PYNCHONIt takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
THOMAS PYNCHONReal flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
THOMAS PYNCHONWhy should things be easy to understand?
THOMAS PYNCHONThere was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
THOMAS PYNCHONDespair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
THOMAS PYNCHONInformation. What’s wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world’s gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
THOMAS PYNCHONFor every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
THOMAS PYNCHONAll variables are independent.
THOMAS PYNCHONIdle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
THOMAS PYNCHONWhat 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.
THOMAS PYNCHONLove with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
THOMAS PYNCHONCan’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
THOMAS PYNCHON