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.
THOMAS PYNCHONBut 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.
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 PYNCHONIf the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault.
THOMAS PYNCHONTo have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
THOMAS PYNCHONDespair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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 PYNCHONGet too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
THOMAS PYNCHONHe decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
THOMAS PYNCHONWhat are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
THOMAS PYNCHONThrough the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
THOMAS PYNCHONEvery weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
THOMAS PYNCHONShall I project a world?
THOMAS PYNCHONLife’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
THOMAS PYNCHONPerhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
THOMAS PYNCHONIf they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
THOMAS PYNCHONLength is usually intensity. Not time.
THOMAS PYNCHON