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Thomas Pynchon Quotes

«If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers»
«While nobles are crying in their nights' chains, the squires sing. The terrible politics of the Grail can never touch them. Song is the magic cape.»
Author: Thomas Pynchon | About: Music, Politics | Keywords: grail, nobles, Politics of, squire
«She would give them order. She would create constellations»
Author: Thomas Pynchon | About: Order | Keywords: constellation, constellations
«There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance»
Author: Thomas Pynchon | Keywords: operations
«Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more!»
«She thought of a sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.»
«A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.»
«Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket, sneaker and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia.»