More Quotes by Thomas Pynchon
Keep cool but care.
There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
Though it is not often that death is so clearly told to fuck off.
I went to the zoo once and saw this thing they call an anteater. That was quite enough for me.
Why should things be easy to understand?
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.
It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
If 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.
